by Fair Vote Canada | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Mythbusters, Uncategorised
About 90 countries around the world use proportional representation (PR), including over 80% of countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Places like Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, and Scotland, to name...
by Fair Vote Canada | Oct 18, 2017 | Mythbusters
Sometimes opponents claim that proportional representation is “bad for rural voters. Cities will have too much power, they claim. Or rural seats will “disappear”. These misleading attempts to pit rural voters against urban ones appears to be a strategy of opponents of...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 6, 2017 | Mythbusters
Was there a lack of consensus to move ahead with proportional representation? “The Liberal talking points on electoral reform: a collection that belongs in an alternative facts class of its own.”- National affairs writer Chantal Hebert One of the main Liberal talking...
by Fair Vote Canada | Dec 16, 2014 | Mythbusters
Is Proportional Representation Unconstitutional? Opponents sometimes claim that proportional representation means amending the constitution or could be subject to a constitutional challenge. In fact, implementing proportional representation designed for Canada—whether...
by Fair Vote Canada | Dec 15, 2014 | Mythbusters
In countries with proportional representation, effective, cooperative governments are the norm This graph illustrates how parliamentary governments were composed in May 2017 in 30 OECD countries. Of these countries, 26 have fully or partially proportional electoral...
by Fair Vote Canada | Dec 14, 2014 | Mythbusters
Special Note: Since we wrote this Mythbuster below in 2014, we have published a Fact Checker with much more detailed research on stability and electoral system. If you’d also like to read the Fact Checker, click the button below! Read the Fact Checker on PR and...