Welcome

Welcome to Total Quality Politics, a blog on the current state of affairs in Canadian and provincial politics.

The name comes from a speech given by Paul Thomas, Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Manitoba to the Institute for Public Administration in Canada (IPAC). In this speech, Dr. Thomas critiques the state of politics and political discourse in Canada. In an age of social media, gotcha journalism, war rooms, microtargetting, and spin over substance, what is the thinking Canadians supposed to do?

The solution is, to adapt a phrase from business schools, to adopt Total Quality Politics. In other words, we can just stop accepting innuendo and gossip as substitutes for analysis and discussion. We can reject character assisnation as the prime pillar of political comunication. We can bring quality back into our advocacy, our organization and our elections.

Stay tuned.