This proposal favours the type of proportional representation
currently used in New Zealand [MMP] for the following
reasons: the proportion of the popular vote for every party would
be represented, whereas at present with 'first past the post'
everything is contingent upon winning in the riding. In
recent years this system has excluded such fledgling parties as The
National Party and The Canada Action Party federally, and
provincially, The Green Party. All of them have been excluded
absolutely. Thus any good ideas that they have never see the light
of day despite the parties receiving a proportion of the popular
vote. A more recent example is the NDP with only two seats, but
something like 37 percent of the popular vote. A less recent
example is the failure of the provincial Liberal Party to become
the government in the previous election despite receiving a greater
proportion of the vote. Hence we are prone to be governed in a
manner in which the majority of voters are not represented.
In the presence of incipient globalisation, these considerations
are more important than they have ever been. People are being
forced to depend increasingly on non-government organisations for
their representation.
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