by Fair Vote Canada | Jul 22, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorised
Ryan Campbell is a Member at Large on Fair Vote Canada’s national executive. He also served on the national board from 2012 to 2015 and has been a board member at Fair Vote Vancouver for the past few years. He has lobbied MPs, given presentations, volunteered on...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorised
Michele Kading is a prairie girl who has lived in Saskatoon, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Winnipeg. Her university studies – culminating in an M. Sc. in biogeography – prepared her for a career as an interpretive naturalist, program manager, and executive director of an...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jun 21, 2022 | Uncategorised
Fair Vote Canada recognizes First Nations, Inuit and Métis people across the country as we offer our solidarity on this important day. Injustices and harms perpetuated by settlers on Indigenous Peoples are an ongoing reality with long-lasting impacts. Indigenous...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jun 4, 2022 | FVC News, Uncategorised
PCs form “majority” government with 40.84%* of the vote: Ontario voters cheated by first-past-the-post Only 40.84% of Ontario voters supported the PCs, yet the voting system has handed Doug Ford’s PCs 67% of the seats and 100% of the power. The election results were a...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 30, 2022 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Australian Labor Party wins a “majority” government with 32.8% of the vote using the voting system Justin Trudeau and Steven Del Duca are coveting Remember when Justin Trudeau’s Liberals formed a government with an historic low of 32.3% of the popular vote, bragging...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 29, 2022 | Uncategorised
Guest Blog by Jason Shvili Blog by Jason Shvvlii. Jason is a freelance writer in Toronto, Canada. I recently read an article written by journalist and commentator, Nechama Duek, in which she advocated changing Israel’s electoral system. In her article, published...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 19, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorised
Your voices for proportional representation are being heard! On Monday May 16, multiple MPs spoke up for proportional representation and a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform in the House of Commons. Kitchener Centre MP Mike Morrice devoted a large...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 13, 2022 | Uncategorised
Please chip in to help us reach hundreds of thousands of voters about proportional representation at their door! Proportional representation supporters are blowing me away again! In the past 3 days, an amazing 250 volunteers have signed up to help deliver PR door...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 12, 2022 | FVC News, Uncategorised
Ontario Greens get it right on electoral reform The Ontario Green Party platform gives voters a process they can trust and a commitment to implement a new voting system. The platform states: Democratic reformCreate a diverse, randomly selected Citizens Assembly on...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 9, 2022 | FVC News, Uncategorised
Liberals put self-interest ahead of Ontarians with ranked ballot pledge The Ontario Liberal Party’s pledge to ram through winner-take-all ranked ballots* should be slammed by all Ontarians as a self-interested power grab―because that’s exactly what it is.Ontarians...
