Proportional Representation

Brown to ask MPs to vote on electoral reform referendum - BBC News

BBC NewsBrown to ask MPs to vote on electoral reform referendumBBC NewsMPs are to be asked to vote next week on holding a referendum on electoral reform, the BBC has learnt.

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Wilf Day's Blog: The Law Commission of Canada Report

The Law Commission of Canada recommended a proportional representation system for Canada in 2004. Unlike the German model, it did not have 50% "top-up" MPs, but 33% added to the local MPs to represent unrepresented voters, ...
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Wilf Day

Political Science professors condemn prorogation, call for electoral reform - The Gateway Online

CBC.caPolitical Science professors condemn prorogation, call for electoral reformThe Gateway Online“Federal electoral reform is a complicated

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: Prorogation - The Best Thing Stephen Harper Ever ...

In truth, any proportional representation is going to do this. Another way of going about this is to try alternate ballot aggregation methods (e.g. replacing FPTP with the Schulze Method, ...
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rww

Tired of the Harper Hoopla? Let's try PR for awhile… « Dead Wild Roses

Go to Fair Vote Canada and sign up and let us turf this antiquated and thoroughly anti-democratic First Past the Post system of representation. Fair Vote Canada has a great FAQ. I snipped the first two topics off their page. ...
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The Arbourist

John Baglow: Stephen Harper's bubbling pot - Full Comment

This was not a question of "educating the people," as Fair Vote Canada has claimed, but of listening to them. A better approach might have been to reframe the discussion: to hold widespread public hearings, not about specific electoral ...
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NP Editor

Cuerpo Aztlan: Proportional Representation and Health

Cuerpo Aztlan - Because Your Body is YOUR Temple! A site about health, community, and music. Tuesday, January 05, 2010. Proportional Representation and Health. # posted by Cuerpo Aztlan : 8:56 AM. Comments: Post a Comment ...
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Cuerpo Aztlan

Your future, today: redesigning democracy for the 21st Century

Such a system avoids the worst consequences of traditional proportional representation, which often results in the MPs being the least hated rather than the most loved, and also removes a great deal of the value of local representation. ...
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Ian Pearson

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