Author: Laurel L. Russwurm

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

- ClaudeMonet (via lonequixote)

As mentioned, I did not come up with the name, and one name change is more than enough, thanks.

Every day that goes by more Canadians understand why we need Proportional Representation. I’m inclined to suspect Mr. Trudeau was in such a hurry to pull the plug because LPC’s own research shows Proportional Representation would prevail in a referendum that was at all fair.

Using the faulty phrase “ranked ballot” when what you mean the winner-take-all Alternative Vote (AV) system is unhelpful, and simply suggests your purpose is to confuse rather than illuminate. Electoral reform to a system worse than First Past The Post is not worth saving, as the UK AV-FPTP referendum demonstrated.

Although the NDP may succumb to the temptation of the One Ring when they find themselves in a majority government, (as we have seen happen with Liberal and Conservative governments before them) the rank and file understand the point of proportionality, better, perhaps, than supporters of the others. This renders the idea that party will ever support Alternative Vote inconceivable for the foreseeable future. That’s the thing about Proportional Representation: once citizens disfranchised by winner-take-all electoral systems understand PR, we support it.

Come up with a better name – It sounds like Nathan who is breaking the promises…

I am disappointed that the NDP sided with the Conservatives in calling for a referendum – which the Conservatives want knowing that a referendum is unlikely to pass…

I support a ranked ballot – the only way to save electoral reform is for the NDP to compromise and support ranked ballot either for use in 2019, or else to pass it now for 2023 so as to avoid the ethical issue of incumbent politicians voting on the system which might help or hurt their ow interests