Comments on: Election timing and why we need PR http://www.camillelabchuk.ca/2009/09/17/election-timing-and-why-we-need-pr/ Green Party federal councilor. Vegan for life. Political junkie. Law student. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Wilf Day http://www.camillelabchuk.ca/2009/09/17/election-timing-and-why-we-need-pr/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Wilf Day Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:21:48 +0000 http://www.camillelabchuk.ca/?p=242#comment-217 Green voters are now unrepresented. Equally, Alberta Liberal voters are unrepresented in the House, as are Toronto Conservative voters and Saskatchewan NDP voters. Meanwhile, in 2008 it took 86,203 federalist voters to elect one Quebec MP, but only 28,163 Bloc voters. So why doesn't someone do something? In 2008 it took 449,013 non-Conservative voters to elect one Alberta MP, but only 30,450 Conservative voters. In 2008 it took only 21,887 Toronto Liberal voters to elect an MP. Toronto Liberals keep getting a big bonus, for the last six elections in a row. Is it because the Conservative Party has been run from Alberta, while the Liberal party has been run from Toronto? We have to make this a multi-partisan drive for democracy. In a country of solitudes, where parties are comfortably entrenched in their strongholds, will nothing change? When will Conservative activists outside their Party’s strongholds, and Liberal activists outside their Party’s strongholds, be more vocal? They must be thinking “what are we, chopped liver? These regional bonuses are bad for Canada. And the Bloc’s bonus keeps paralyzing Parliament.” When will they say it in public? http://wilfday.blogspot.com/2009/09/bloc-bonus-and-other-chronic-bonuses.html Green voters are now unrepresented. Equally, Alberta Liberal voters are unrepresented in the House, as are Toronto Conservative voters and Saskatchewan NDP voters. Meanwhile, in 2008 it took 86,203 federalist voters to elect one Quebec MP, but only 28,163 Bloc voters.

So why doesn’t someone do something?

In 2008 it took 449,013 non-Conservative voters to elect one Alberta MP, but only 30,450 Conservative voters.

In 2008 it took only 21,887 Toronto Liberal voters to elect an MP. Toronto Liberals keep getting a big bonus, for the last six elections in a row.

Is it because the Conservative Party has been run from Alberta, while the Liberal party has been run from Toronto?

We have to make this a multi-partisan drive for democracy.

In a country of solitudes, where parties are comfortably entrenched in their strongholds, will nothing change?

When will Conservative activists outside their Party’s strongholds, and Liberal activists outside their Party’s strongholds, be more vocal? They must be thinking “what are we, chopped liver? These regional bonuses are bad for Canada. And the Bloc’s bonus keeps paralyzing Parliament.” When will they say it in public?

http://wilfday.blogspot.com/2009/09/bloc-bonus-and-other-chronic-bonuses.html

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