visual laurel 2023-06-10 11:00:25

“Proportional representation will ensure that a minority will never rule. It also will ensure that no considerable minority will ever be excluded from having a voice Is that not democracy?

"What have the self- appointed protagonists of democracy and majority rule in this House to say about that?

"Are they opposed to a minority having a voice?

"Are they opposed to majority rule?”

William Irvine, MP (1923) [Pictured] https://www.lipad.ca/full/permalink/643351/

“Now to think that democracy is properly represented when you…



“Now to think that democracy is properly represented when you have elections under a system which gives you a majority of the members from a minority of the electorate is, of course, too absurd for further argument.” 

 — Andrew Ross McMaster (Liberal)  February 19, 1923 https://www.lipad.ca/full/permalink/643321/