Electoral Reform Committee Hearings Continue
The meetings of the Parliamentary committee studying Electoral Reform resumed this week with presentations from a series of “expert” witnesses. In the first of these meetings the call for a…
Electorial System
Electoral Reform – The Ballots
Having recently reviewed a few of the more commonly used voting systems that may be considered by the proposed committee to examine electoral reform in Canada I thought it might…
Electoral Reform – The Ballots
Having recently reviewed a few of the more commonly used voting systems that may be considered by the proposed committee to examine electoral reform in Canada I thought it might…
Single Transferable Vote & Instant Run Off Voting
This week I will once again discuss some of the voting systems that may be considered for our future electoral reform. Single transferable vote (STV) is often touted as a…
Single Transferable Vote & Instant Run Off Voting
This week I will once again discuss some of the voting systems that may be considered for our future electoral reform. Single transferable vote (STV) is often touted as a…
The Problem with Proportional.
Fair Vote Canada in an open letter sent to the Prime Minister has come out strongly for the Democratic Voting Task Force to involve citizens from the beginning on Trudeau's…
The Problem with Proportional.
Fair Vote Canada in an open letter sent to the Prime Minister has come out strongly for the Democratic Voting Task Force to involve citizens from the beginning on Trudeau's…
Election Revisited
The election has now taken place and for many of us the results may override any concerns that we had with the process however make no mistake this election process…
Democracy’s Future
After 5 years of writing about democracy’s decline and the impact of one particular individual had in that regard I am now faced with the question of ‘what do I…
Vote, Vote, Vote – Vote ABC
Are you Registered to Vote? By this time you should have received your Voter Information Card telling you where your polling station is located, if you have not received one…
Electoral Reform in our Future?
With all parties except the Cons promising electoral reform and with what appears to be a lot of support for such a change we must look at exactly what is…
Be Prepared, Voter Identification
Much has been made of late of the removal of the voter card as a piece of identification, there was even a court case in Ontario to challenge the provision…
Gob-smacking!
“It was possibly the most gob-smacking election launch in modern Canadian history.” So says much respected parliamentary reporter Susanna Kelley “The shockers began almost immediately after Stephen Harper announced he’d…
Will the Writ be Dropped Early?
Most elections have been fought over the now-typical five-week period, but the 36 day writ period is merely a convention and we all know how much respect Harper has for…
Harper History, Part 6A – Con Majority – Election Fraud
Spring 2011 & Subsequent Fallout This article in my series that attempt to detail the contempt that Harper and his cohorts have for Canadian Democracy will not only cover the…
An Open Letter to Tom Mulcair.
Dear Sir I am in receipt of you self congratulatory email boasting of how you have just signed the Fair Vote Canada’s Politicians’ Pledge,I congratulate you on doing so and…
Successful Coverup, Fall Guy Convicted
The Conservative party has consistently said it ran a clean and ethical campaign and had nothing to do with what happened in Guelph and has also said that they ‘fully…
Electoral Reform – Personal Perspective
After more than 5 years of writing about our declining democracy and having several times reviewed the options open to us should we ever get a government in power willing…
Electoral Reform – The Parties Position
Its sometimes hard to see where the parties stand on any particular issue given the hype, bafflegab and spin that issues from almost all of them at times and the…
Electoral Reform – Voting Systems
I have said that simply calling for PR (Proportional Voting) is not sufficient but that we must understand the various systems that are generally promoted as ‘proportional’, and the alternatives.…