For a list of resources
and election
outcomes, please see below.
All across Canada, at the federal and provincial
level, there is an extensive and growing gap between what the
citizens of Canada want and what our elected do. This gap,
particularly among those who have an interest in avoiding clarity
and accountability, is more popularly described by the less specific
term, the "democratic deficit". And regardless of
which term is used, the consequence of this gap contributes to a
pool of winners and losers. (A more extensive introduction why
electoral reform is needed, please see the analyses of the 2006
federal election and supporting data 2006
Federal election outcome in all 308 voting districts.)
Once the dots are connected between the
"democratic deficit" - "the gap between the
electorate and the elected" - AND the recognition that within
our parliamentary form of government, that a minority of Canadians
represented by say a popular vote of 40% can and frequently do enjoy
electoral outcomes that include a "majority of seats" in
parliament, in other words a phony majority, its an easy next step
to recognise the need for true and genuine electoral reform as an
appropriate measure by which to close the gap between the electorate
and the elected!
Focusing on that next step, "you can not fix
something if you do not know what is broken... you can not fix a
bicycle tire if you do not know where the hole is. We can not
fix our election system with certainty, without knowing where the
holes are that allow minorities to control the majorities."
This quote formed the opening paragraph to the
paper I submitted to the 2007
Ontario Citizen Assembly on Electoral Reform which, first
pinpointed the democratic hole, not only in the current electoral
system, but also the "Mixed Member Proportional" system
that Ontario's "Citizen Assembly", through a heavy handed
process, came to "recommend", but my paper went on to show
how, through a very small change to the present system, the hole in
the present system, could all but be eliminated.
FPTP bad! MMP worse!! "Vote 1, 2, 3..." better!!! Stops
vote-splits, overruns & phony majorities provides a brief
step by step logically reasoned argument, using a common basis, by
which all three systems, can be examined, compared, and properly
stacked up, one against the other. An analyses which the
Ontario Citizen Assembly's leadership refused to conduct.
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