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Prefers present system
July 21, 2016 · 0 Comments
I read your article (“No perfect solution to federal electoral reform challenges,” 23 June), as well as a newsletter article on the same subject from MP David Tilson. I also studied the voting alternatives a few years ago and consulted friends in Australia. I prefer the present system.
The multiple-choice ballot might be acceptable if there were several viable political parties – i.e., if there were more than one party on the left, centre and right – but then of course we would have multiple minority parties in Parliament and a highly unstable “marijuana” or separatist party might wield the balance of power and hold the major parties hostage.
The preferential voting method heavily favours a “centrist” party (i.e., the Liberals, as decreed by most media) for, as you observed, an NDP voter would choose a Liberal rather than a Conservative option as a second choice. (And Conservatives would follow suit.) That is why the Liberal government must not be permitted to choose a voting system via its overweighted committee and legislative majority.
That leaves the current system as the only one suited for Canada.
I hope that a lot of debate will occur on this subject, in your pages as well as in Toronto-based (i.e., mostly leftist) media.
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