The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Bow Wow Parliament The first casualty of the current pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador was democracy and on Tuesday, the pan...

Since 2003, the legislature has become more about political theatre than the public interest.    This past sitting of the House proves how...

If the members of the House of Assembly vote to accept the reports from two statutory officers as presented they will have to accept that ...

What is reported is seldom what happened even though what happened is far more interesting than the stuff that falls into the orchestra pit...

Guest post by Simon Lono The latest House of Assembly Twitter flap raises more issues that it first appears.  Leaving aside the wisdom of...

The Liberals' signature policy initiative is Bill 1 . It is so important that it is the only piece of new legislation the Liberals hav...

For the third day in a row,  the opposition has asked one question over and over again, with a couple of minor variations. They’ve asked e...

Members of the House of Assembly had the good fortune of having two fine candidates for Speaker. While SRBP endorsed Scott Reid, the H...

Liberal member of the House of Assembly Scott Reid is a candidate for Speaker of the House. By the looks of things,  members will have a c...

Arguably, the greatest fairy tale the Conservatives spread after 2003 was that Danny Williams didn’t take a salary from the people of Newfou...

The usual round of Saturday chores this weekend brought with it the usual accidental meetings with all manner of friends and acquaintances. ...

If Paul Davis and his beleaguered band of provincial Conservatives started the week on a high,  it didn’t last very long. They opened the ...

Before Christmas, Liberal leader Dwight Ball had been calling for an election as soon as possible.  After Christmas, faced with the chanc...

It’s not surprising that the provincial Conservatives and their supporters want to reduce the representations the people of the province hav...

The idea of reducing the size of the province’s legislature because the provincial government has a massive financial crisis didn’t get any ...

Nice to be wrong update:   The Liberals started Question Period on Monday hammering the Conservatives over the Humber Valley Paving controve...

Last week SRBP noted that the provincial cabinet seems to be having some difficulty getting legislation into the House for debate. Normal...

As of May 2, there are a mere six pieces of legislation on the list of bills currently set for debate in the House of Assembly.  It seems t...

The longest filibuster in Newfoundland and Labrador legislative history ended quietly Saturday morning. This was the second filibuster thi...

Last week Premier Kathy Dunderdale told the House of Assembly something that was patently not true. She said that the public utilities boa...