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I agree with you.      Furthermore, there is a Canadian organization
that is promoting fairer elections called "The Democracy League".
Their email address is umweiss4@cc.umanitoba.ca.

--James in California

Pangster (apnalli@idirect.com) wrote:
: Consider this....

: Lets say there were only two parties, "A" and "B".  If 49% of the people
: in each electoral district voted for Party A, and 51% voted for Party B,
: this would result in ALL of the Party B candidates winning every seat in
: Parliament.  Party B, therefore, would have a majority (100%) government.
: Yet, 49% of the population chose Party A.  Are these people being represented
: in Parliament.  Supposedly they would be, but by the OTHER person.

: Case in point...In Ottawa, the "Official opposition" is the Bloc Quebecois.
: Is that to say that the majority of the people of Canada voted Liberal, and
: in second place - by total votes (votes=taxpayers=real people) would be
: the Bloc.  I have a hard time believeing that!

: Theoretically, if 40% vote Liberal, the Grits should hold 40% of the seats.
: Likewise, for the second place Reformers (I assume) who should hold the
: next largest percentage of seats based on total votes, and so on.

: In Ontario, for example, there is much discussion on who I might feel is
: the best Leader, Rae, McLeod, or Harris.  But that is really irrelevant.
: I am not voting for them, I must choose between the candidates in my riding.
: Really, if I chose to vote for the Natural Law Party (as a few people do)
: that vote is essentially wasted.  Even if 1% of voters choose Natural Law,
: in all fairness those voters should be represented by NL MPP's holding
: 1% of the seats.  

: I think we should vote for the LEADER.  The one with the most votes must
: therefore have the confidence of the majority of the population.  Votes
: can then be divided regionally, and if the people of Brampton South were
: more inclined to vote NDP (for example) then that area would have an NDP
: MPP and that would count toward that party's pecentage of seats.

: Whew, I feel better now!  Even though it will probably never change!
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