Donner Canadian Foundation: Mark D. Jarvis

Dalhousie University Dept: The 14th annual Donner Prize was handed out at a gala presentation at The Carlu in Toronto Tuesday evening by Allan Gotlieb, Chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation, according to The Star. Aucoin, who died July 7, 2011, was Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Administration at Dalhousie University. Jarvis is a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria, and Turnbull is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University and democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government , by Peter Aucoin, Mark D. Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, about how Canada s time-honoured system of responsible government is failing us, was awarded the $50,000 Donner Prize as the best public policy book by a Canadian published in the past year. The authors of Democratizing the Constitution argue that the principle by which the executive must be accountable to the people s elected representatives is slipping away, and that our constitution and its unwritten conventions no longer provide effective constraints on a prime minister s power. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.