Reading Time: 3 minutes As our country has evolved, dialogue is encouraged in education and the media, but is stymied in our highest law-making institutions
Tag: Electoral reform
B.C. democratic reform neither simple nor straightforward
Reading Time: 5 minutes Referendum may grant more power to B.C. politicians and bureaucrats, at democracy’s expense
The Liberal’s lukewarm shift toward electoral reform
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trudeau government’s belated commitment to election law revisions is welcome, if far short of earlier promises
Leave B.C. electoral system alone
Reading Time: 4 minutes British Columbians are being asked, for the third time, to vote on drastic electoral changes. It would be a mistake
A two-step approach to electoral reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes One referendum, with little public education, is not enough for electoral reform in B.C. Voters need to have full knowledge of the consequences of their choices
‘None of the above’ should be a valid ballot choice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters should be given the opportunity to say none of the options are acceptable. It could lay the foundation for a stronger democracy
Small Green Party may wield big power in B.C
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters of smaller parties are empowered disproportionately in minority governments, at the expense of the majority of voters, who tend to vote for a main party
Changing B.C.’s electoral system requires a referendum
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because electoral reform was not a major issue in the recent election campaign, the Green Party can’t claim a legitimate mandate for change without public input
Electoral reform by any other name is still progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Relax party discipline to dent the iron control of a majority government, forcing it to make compromises and behave less like a dictatorship
N.B. on its way to building a more inclusive democracy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Electoral reform recommendations seek to build a bigger democratic tent and populate it with under-represented New Brunswickers