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...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
PR campaigners in the Yukon are one step closer to a major breakthrough for electoral reform that could resonate across the country. Over the past three months, Yukon’s all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform worked with Statistics Yukon to send a survey to...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 3, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
First-past-the-post has handed Dennis King’s Progressive Conservatives 81% of the seats with 56% of the popular vote. The Green Party received 21.6% voter support, but Green voters received only 2 (7%) of the seats. The Liberal Party received 17% voter support, but...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorised
This post is a guest blog, copied with thanks from our friends at Make Votes Matter, the UK citizens campaign for proportional representation! We have edited it slightly for a Canadian audience. Ireland and PR: 5 things to know Ireland has used Proportional...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 9, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Canadians worried about foreign interference in our elections need to know that our decrepit voting system makes us particularly vulnerable. Canada’s winner-take-all voting system turns the nefarious efforts of foreign actors into a highly rewarding endeavor. SWING...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 2, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fair Vote Canada volunteers will be out Friday March 3 from 4:30-6:30 PM and Saturday March 4 from 8-10 AM, in front of the Ontario Liberal Party AGM at the Hamilton Convention Centre. They are urging the Ontario Liberal Party, including the...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorised
VOTE AHEAD: Sign up to send Justin Trudeau a card telling him to vote YES to a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform! We are standing on the verge of a huge breakthrough. It’s the biggest opportunity to kick-start electoral reform in Canada since the...
by Fair Vote Canada | Jan 3, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
National poll shows strong majority support for a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform A new national poll by EKOS research, commissioned by Fair Vote Canada, shows 76% of Canadians would support a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. This...
by Fair Vote Canada | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorised
Citizens’ Assemblies are shaking up the status quo in Ireland―and getting results Imagine, if the voices of citizens had real power over the biggest issues in the country―at election time and in the years in between. Ireland is showing the world how it’s...
by Fair Vote Canada | Dec 16, 2022 | FVC News, Uncategorised
In June, 2022, Doug Ford’s PCs won 67% of the seats with just 41% of the popular vote. They received the support of less than 18% of eligible voters. With that dubious “mandate,” Ford continues to enact a steady stream of legislation opposed by every other party in...
