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About Change |
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Canada has been around for a long time as democracies go. We’re one of the oldest. In the history of our democracy, we’ve changed the flag three times, but we haven’t done a thing to upgrade or improve the way we put our leaders under our flag. Can we improve that? |
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Alan Cairns, Officer of the Order of Canada, stated in a 1960s study, that a political party system with the First-Past-the-Post principle does not give effective representative democracy Ed Broadbent stated in 2005, “The truth is that the most flawed component of our democratic society is our profoundly undemocratic electoral system”. Liberal premiers in British Columbia and Ontario have carried out their election promises to their electors. Gordon Campbell and Dalton McGuinty respectively have led their governments to referenda on electoral change. Hugh Segal (Conservative) and Ed Broadbent (NDP) have worked together in support of electoral system change. British Columbia is now seriously considering and planning to vote again on STV (Single Transferable Vote) on May 17, 2009. Quebec is also seriously considering electoral change. Fair Vote Canada (FVC) held its seventh AGM on May 31, 2008. FVC is a multi-partisan citizens’ campaign for voting system reform. Canadians from all points on the political spectrum, all regions and all walks of life are joining FVC to demand a fair voting system - a fundamental requirement for healthy representative democracy and government accountability. In these pages, we’re hoping to convince you there is a better way, a way that is more inclusive of the real majority, not just the voters for the first runner in the race in each riding. The system here was developed for Canada. It is operationally similar to Canada’s present system, but far more effective.
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