Time to change ways

Some biased pundits and armchair politicians would have you believe, the current, FPTP, election system has served us well in the past. It has not!

While it was an improvement, in the thirteenth century, over the divine right of monarchs to decide who was to govern the people, it has failed to serve the majority of voters well at all, ever since. It continues to commonly elect representatives and install parties as government, when neither received a majority of the votes in the elections. Under FPTP the largest minority is usually given unfettered control over the governance of the citizens, even though a majority of them did not support that candidate or party. For example, both the last Stephen Harper government in 2011 and the Trudeau Liberals in 2015 received only 39 percent of the vote yet both also received a false majority of seats in parliament, giving them total power to govern the entire population even though over 60% of voters rejected their party platforms in the respective general elections.

This is contrary to the inviolable democratic principle that, the will of the majority of the people should prevail.
Modern proportional representation systems ensure that overall voters preferences are reflected in the
legislature and that government is composed of representatives who accurately represent a majority of
voters. It’s sometimes pointed out that no electoral system is perfect, but none is as flawed as the outdated and blatantly undemocratic British colonial one, that we currently use in Canada.

We need to bring our elections into the 21st century. Why?, because it’s already 2018!

Terry W. Robertson