I would like to encourage the Citizens' Assembly to propose for
our province a Mixed Member Proportional Representation
[MMP] system of election. It should include a minimum
threshold of about five percent to avoid extremest groups from
deeply fracturing the Legislature. This form of government is what
democracy has evolved to in places that have allowed such
evolution. It has allowed substantial changes within moderate
climates of governance. While true that it often leads to minority
governments, I see this as a positive thing because more people who
are willing to govern through concensus are drawn to political
life, instead of just those who are satisfied only with the near
unfettered power that majority governments gain under the British
parlimentary system. We should remember that Canada gained a public
health system from a minority government, and that the Act was
eventually passed by a unanimous vote of all parties
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