Category: Keep Your Promise

Your Vote Should Count!!It was NOT Mr. Trudeau’s decision to…



Your Vote Should Count!!

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.)  

Not in a democracy, anyway

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.

Because Canada ought to be a democracy in which we can all expect fair representation. 


*more than any other Canadian Parliamentary e-Petition… almost twice as much support as the next most successful petition. 

Pies Inspired By Bardish #4In the final pie we see clearly the…



Pies Inspired By Bardish #4

In the final pie we see clearly the Liberal election result in 2015 nearly perfectly mirrors the Conservative election result in 2011.  

The only difference is that now the Liberal Party holds all the power, although it only earned 39% of the vote.  

As Bardish tells us in the video, the Liberal Party voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Electoral Reform resolution her riding association put forward, which is why it became Liberal Policy.  Justin Trudeau and his campaign team chose to adopt this policy as the prominent campaign promise Bardish was so proud of.  And the new Government renewed that promise in the Throne speech (5:13).  But now Prime Minister Trudeau gets to govern dictatorially, (just as his predecessor did).  He has unilaterally gone back on a promise his own party overwhelmingly supported that he might keep the disproportional power he acquired in the unfair electoral system he vowed to replace.  

First Past The Post is as unfair today as it ever was.  It seems Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party doesn’t mind treating Canadians unfairly if they benefit.  

Not real change after all.

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