Fair Vote Canada webinars
PR 101: proportional representation vs first past the post
Want to learn the basics of the campaign for proportional representation? What’s wrong with winner-take-all systems? What is proportional representation? How would it strengthen our democracy?
Join Fair Vote Canada for PR 101! We’ll look at proportional representation vs first past the post. A half hour presentation is followed by questions and answers in a small group setting.
Offered on the 15th of every month (except July and August). 1 PM Eastern if the date is on a weekend, 8 PM Eastern if the date is during the week. To register for any of the upcoming sessions, click the date below.
Spring 2024
Sunday March 17, 7 PM ET: Making progress on electoral reform: Lessons learned and reasons for hope
What are the most important lessons the electoral reform movement has learned in our two decades of fighting for proportional representation? How can understanding these lessons make us stronger going forward? What progress has been made in Canada, and what evidence-based reasons are there to be hopeful?
We’ll take a deep dive into the answers with one of Canada’s preeminent experts on voting system reform, Dennis Pilon of York University. Professor Pilon has spent decades researching the real world politics of how countries change their voting systems while closely following the campaign for electoral reform in Canada.
Recordings of past Fair Vote Canada webinars
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Winning the vote on Motion M-86: A Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform
Hear from NDP MP Lisa Marie Barron, sponsor of Motion M-86 for a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz, and Green MP Mike Morrice about why they supported this motion to improve our democracy.
How did other democracies change their electoral systems?
Electoral reform expert Dennis Pilon looks at the real world politics behind how countries adopted proportional representation, the role of multi-party agreements, and what reformers can learn from history.
Associate Professor Dennis Pilon is author of two books and many chapters and journal articles on the history and politics of electoral reform in Canada and around the world.