“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/