Recall legislation

In general recall legislation is to be approached with care.

Elected officials sometimes have to make difficult, and unpopular, decisions -- witness the HST or NAFTA -- and the threat of having recall too easily available could lead to paralysis.

That said, if there is a sufficiently high barrier to casual use recall legislation keeps the voters in charge between elections.

The danger of unresponsive elected officials is real enough so, provided it is properly drafted, I come down on the side of recall legislation.