by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
As Chantal Hebert noted during CBC’s election night coverage, “I think this is what it looks like when you have a two-party system.” The results of this election demonstrate, once again, that Canada’s archaic voting system is failing voters. Canadians on the left and...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 26, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Fair Vote Canada applauds Mark Carney’s positive statements about working on electoral reform. We strongly support his position that the Prime Minister’s personal opinion shouldn’t decide the issue – and Canadians agree with him.At an event in Sault Ste. Marie,...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 19, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
The Liberal Party platform is out and when it comes to a stronger democracy, it’s heavy on values and light on specifics. Fair Vote Canada is urging Mark Carney to express support for the broad principle of proportional representation. This should not be difficult for...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
If there’s anything we can learn from the Americans, it’s that Canada doesn’t need a two-party system. Politics to the south of the border has descended into a nightmare. The United States has become a flashing billboard for what can happen when a...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 14, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Fair Vote Canada congratulates Mark Carney on becoming Canada’s Prime Minister. We welcome the appointment of Arielle Kayabaga as Canada’s new Minister of Democratic Institutions. In a slimmed-down cabinet focused on the biggest issues facing the country, the...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Fair Vote Canada congratulates Mark Carney on winning the leadership of the Liberal Party and his imminent swearing-in as the Prime Minister of Canada.With Carney at the helm, Canadians who support proportional representation can firmly close the door on the era of...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Photo: CDU leader Friedrich Merz and SPD Co-Chairman Lars Klingbeil Ontario and Germany just had elections. The contrast between those elections couldn’t be greater. In Germany, 82.5% of the electorate turned out to vote. In Ontario, a mere 45% showed up. In Germany,...
by Fair Vote Canada | Feb 28, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
PCs form a “majority” government with 43%* of the vote: Ontario voters cheated again by first-past-the-post Only 43% of Ontario voters supported the PCs, yet the voting system has handed Doug Ford’s PCs 64.5 % of the seats and 100% of the power. The election results...
by Fair Vote Canada | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Where the parties stand on proportional representation and a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform Thank you to the thousands of you who have been pushing the Ontario Liberals, NDP and Greens on proportional representation and a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral...
by Fair Vote Canada | Feb 15, 2025 | Blog, Uncategorised
By Emerson Howitt The Ontario provincial election was recently shaken by the announcement that the NDP candidate for Eglinton-Lawrence, Natasha Doyle-Merrick, was withdrawing from the race and endorsing the Liberal candidate. Her reason? To prevent vote-splitting and...
