Category Archives: Electoral Reform

(October 4, 2007) Ontario is full of alienated minorities, demographic and geographic groups who lack a voice and for whom the political system offers little of relevance. The new system of proportional representation proposed for Ontario, Myriad Minority Parties, or MMP for short, will empower any group garnering 3% or more of the vote. Continue reading →

(October 6, 2005) Ottawa MP Ed Broadbent blasts cynical betrayal. New Democratic Party (NDP). Continue reading →

(January 29, 2002) The citizens-initiated referendums. When New Zealanders went to the polling booths on election day in 1999, some were surprised to be issued with a bundle of papers. Continue reading →

(December 1, 1999) Question: Should the size of the House of Representatives be reduced from 120 members to 99 members? Continue reading →

(June 21, 1998) Taking the law into our own hands will give us the governments we deserve. The time is March 1997, and the citizens of Toronto’s six municipalities are out of luck. In one month, the province will make an amalgam of them and call the product “megacity.” Continue reading →