This is the third in a series of reports that share what we heard from the 65 MPs who participated in our exit interview project. Our next publication will be the last from this series of interviews and will summarize how the MPs describe their highs and lows, and the advice they have for strengthening our democracy.
This final publication—effectively the MPs’ collective report card on their time in public life— will also lead into Samara’s next major project: a democracy index that will annually measure the health of Canadian democracy.
A report card of a different sort, the index aims to be inspirational, to give praise and point out deficiencies, but above all to encourage discussion and focus attention on how Canada’s democracy can be improved in ways that go beyond elections and voter turnout.