Proportional representation is the only way to make every vote count

By rabble staff | March 29, 2016

During the 2015 federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised that this election would be the last conducted under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system.

After decades of campaigning from the likes of Fair Vote Canada and too many failed referendums that sought to turf the outdated system, Canada is as close to a consensus as it has ever been on electoral reform. For the first time, a majority of us agree that the way Canadians have voted since before Confederation is fundamentally unfair, wastes votes and has contributed to the decline of our democracy...

For rabble.ca, there is only one clear path: proportional representation (PR). The most evident reason is that under PR, political parties -- and the policies through which elections are actually contested -- receive a number of MPs in proportion with the popular vote. But not only does PR deliver fair results at a national level, many proportional systems also deliver more accurate representation at a local level.

PR is no panacea for the litany of challenges facing our country, but with an historic opportunity to start a real conversation about the future of Canadian democracy...

Canada needs proportional representation. So let's talk about how to get there -- how to make every vote count.

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