Proportional Representation Leads to More Diverse, Cooperati

Proportional Representation Leads to More Diverse, Cooperati

Postby Oscar » Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:26 pm

Proportional Representation Leads to More Diverse, Cooperative Politics

[ http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/08/18/Pr ... ign=180816 ]

A response to Bill Tieleman and other electoral reform naysayers.

By Devon Rowcliffe , | TheTyee.ca August 18, 2016

EXCERPT:

So just how popular is proportional representation among voters in countries that use it? No country that has switched from first-past-the-post (Canada’s current voting system) to proportional representation at the national level has switched back. Ever. Anywhere in the world. You could argue that it is adored. Changes to national electoral systems around our planet are entirely one-way traffic: toward proportionality.

Even the United Kingdom, the birthplace and major exporter of first-past-the-post, has already ventured down the path to adopting proportional representation: three of the “home countries” – Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland – now use PR for local elections and European elections. Canada and the U.S. are the last two major democracies still dominated by first-past-the-post voting – but even the U.S. has a couple of municipalities that use PR. Canada is now the only major democracy on the planet to have not adopted PR at all; we are perhaps the electoral equivalent of how the Americans refuse to adopt the superior metric system.

It’s time for change, whether people like Tieleman like it or not. Canadian voters deserve better.
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