electoral reform

Trudeau risks populist backlash by breaking key promise

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About-face on democratic reform commitment fuels cynicism, anger   TORONTO – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s abandonment of a key election promise on democratic reform risks fuelling the cynicism, anger, and disenfranchisement that resulted in a Brexit referendum victory in the UK and propelled Trump to the US Presidency.   “Justin Trudeau has broken faith with … Read more

CUSJ Submits Brief On Electoral Reform

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The CUSJ is proud to participate in the government’s consultative process to determine if Canadians want a new electoral system and what kind of a system we want.  They also want to know if we would support electronic voting.  CUSJ came down firmly on the side of Electoral Reform to achieve Proportional Representation.  We hope … Read more

FVC’s Meet your MP Campaign

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Fair Vote Canada is undertaking to have its members and supporters visit their local MPs between January 2nd and January 24th 2016, when the MPs are most likely to be in their home ridings, in order to educate MPs about Proportional Representation, and hopefully motivate them to champion this issue going forward. Now is the time … Read more

Proportional Representation for Canadians (from JustNews DP 30)

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JustNews Editor Philip Symon’s note: I was asked by a Board Member of Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice to include an article on proportional representation (PR) in this Autumn 2015 Discussion Paper which is appearing shortly before the October federal election. Upon searching the internet for such an article, I was surprised to find most … Read more