Electoral Reform Reversal
Rick Mercer tells it like it is.
Rick Mercer tells it like it is.
Check out Fair Vote Canada’s info for tips on what you can do for fairness.
Will your MP represent *your* interests when they cast their vote?
On May 31st Canadian Parliamentarians will vote on whether to accept the recommendations of the #ERRE Committee.
Tell your MP what *you* want.
The Trudeau Government spent millions on the much lampooned My Democracy survey (far more than on the ERRE Committee’s cross Canada Consultation… and then the Trudeau Government said Canadians didn’t want Proportional Representation!
The survey (deliberately ?) didn’t ask for specific electoral systems, but contrary to Government claims, by far the results supported adoption of some form of Proportional Representation as in the above pie chart.
Read the surbey result yourself here:
MyDemocracy.ca — Online digital consultation & engagement platform
Tell Your MP to vote YES to Proportional Representation on May 31st
visit Fair Vote Canada to find ways *you* can help!
http://www.fairvote.ca/errevote/
“2015 will be the last election using First Past The Post.”
—Justin Trudeau, 2015
A Liberal friend assured me that, since the Liberals believe in evidence based policy, this *had* to mean we would end up with Proportional Representation.
And she was right: even though the ERRE Consultation was woefully underfunded and the lions share of the outreach was left up to ordinary Canadians DIY community dialogue and information sharing, even though the ERRE Committee recommended Proportional Representation… and then Prime Minister Trudeau pulled the plug.
Every issue Canadians have will benefit from Proportional Representation, which is why we need it back on the table. On May 31st Parliament will vote on whether it will accept the ERRE Committee Recommendation.
Proportionality isn’t just about political parties, it’s about all sorts of representation.
It was NOT Mr. Trudeau’s decision to decide to over-rule the majority of Canadians who voted for parties advocating electoral reform.
(Nor should it be his decision to overule the majority of his own party who supported the electoral reform policy he repeated over and over as a campaign promise, then reaffirmed as part of the throne speech, then spent millions of dollars consulting with Canadians about.)
The MyDemocracy survey results demonstrated a majority of its respondents want a fair inclusive political system.
More than 130,000 Canadians signed the e-616 parliamentary e-Petition* telling Mr. Trudeau’s Government we want the Electoral Reform process to continue.
The ERRE Consultation confirmed that Canadians want electoral reform… and a majority want Proportional Representation. And that is what the ERRE Committee recommended.
The Government response is the equivalent of “No. Because I said so.”
The House of Commons will vote on whether to accept the recommendation of the ERRE Committee on May 31st, 2017.
Tell your MP you want all Canadians to have votes that matter, and that you expect them to vote to accept the ERRE Committee Recommendation.
*more than any other Canadian Parliamentary e-Petition… almost twice as much support as the next most successful petition.
Canada: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
During the 2015 Federal Election, Mr. Trudeau invited Canadians to vote on the Liberal Policy…
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/canada-infrastructure-bank/
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/electoral-reform/
More than 25,000 Canadians voted on Electoral Reform.
Fewer than 1,000 voted on the Infrastructure Bank idea.
But Mr. Trudeau decided not to do Electoral Reform ~ in spite of the fact 26,129 Canadians were interested in it. Now we hear that Mr. Trudeau is going to push ahead on the Infrastructure Bank that only 997 Canadians even bothered to vote on!
What gives?
NDP MP Nathan Cullen and Ontario Green Bob Jonkman are in 100% agreement on Proportional Representation.
Despite acrimony and negative campaigning in the BC Election, the BC NDP and the BC Greens are on the same page on a lot of issues. Last night’s election result suggests minority government is what BC voters asked for. Just like Nathan and Bob, the BC Orange and Green have a lot of policy in common. Can these parties put the past behind them for the good of BC?
They have LOTS of common Ground.
Three I can think of off the top of my head:
NDP
GREEN
http://www.bcgreens.ca/advisory_weaver_unveils_b_c_green_party_platform_on_democratic_reform
NDP
http://globalnews.ca/video/3192550/presser-b-c-ndp-leader-on-getting-big-money-out-of-politics
NDP
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-ndps-great-pipeline-divide/
GREEN
http://www.bcgreens.ca/tags/kinder_morgan
And here are more: