by Fair Vote Canada | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Picture left to right: MPs Leah Taylor Roy, Mike Morrice, Lisa Marie Barron, Julie Dzerowicz, Élisabeth Brière, and Réal Lavergne from Fair Vote Canada, at a reception November 2023 for Motion M-86. NOVEMBER 2023 UPDATE: The first debate on Motion M-86 for a National...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jun 9, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Danielle Smith’s announcement of an advisory “council” of unelected UCP candidates in Edmonton is no substitute for fair and accurate representation of Edmonton voters in the legislature. About 36% of Edmonton voters chose UCP. They voted for representation―not a...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 30, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
First-past-the-post has delivered an exaggerated majority for Danielle Smith’s UCP in Alberta. The party won 56% of the seats with 52.6% of the vote. The map of the results shows exaggerated regional differences:In the 13 ridings of Northern Alberta, UCP voters cast...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 6, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
Picture: Jer Clarke/ (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) licence bThe Liberal Party of Canada has voted to back a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform at their national policy convention. BE IT RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the Government of Canada to...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 29, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Surrey’s costly police transition saga was caused in part by the flawed voting systems imposed by the Province on municipalities. Doug McCallum won the Surrey mayor’s seat in 2018 with a lower share of the vote than when he lost to Dianne Watts in 2005. With that weak...