by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document This appendix looks at Canadian values identified in five of the main consultative processes on electoral reform across the country in recent years and assesses whether they can be satisfactorily addressed under a...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document Shoni Field, former member of the BC Citizens’ Assembly, 2004 In January 2004, I embarked on a precedent setting, year-long process with 159 of my fellow citizens to examine whether B.C.’s current electoral system served...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document Carolyn Bennett wrote as long ago as 2001 that: Electoral reform can only be successful in concert with renewed democracy between elections, parliamentary reform and party reform… Political parties must be...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document This portion of the submission was developed independently by Fair Vote Canada’s rural and small-urban caucus, which consists of Canadians living in rural or small urban areas of Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland, New...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document A widely-supported option for Canada Internationally, MMP has been used in Germany since the mid-1940s, in New Zealand since 1994, and for parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales since 1999. In 1998, the Jenkins...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document History of STV in Canada Most Canadians don’t know that STV has a distinguished history of use in Canada over the past century. In fact, it’s the only form of PR that has ever been used here and in our...
