ELECTORAL REFORM
CANADIAN SCHEME
CURINP ILLS OF DEMOCRACY
(Received April 7, 2.45 p.m.) OTTAWA, April 6. The House of Commons has set up a Committee to study the Australian system of compulsory balloting as part of sweeping reforms by the Government of the electoral system designed to abolish secret campaign funds. The. proposals are approved by the leaders of all parties.
Campaign expenditures will be cootrolled by a non-partisan corporate body with an inspector-general. The publishing of promises of contributions for election purposes and the pledging of candidates will be forbidden.
The Minister of Health. Mr. C. G. Power, in introducing the proposal, declared that the ills of democracy must be cured in order to avoid Fascism and Communism.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 10
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119ELECTORAL REFORM Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 10
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