On behalf of our group -- Indo-Canadians for Minority
Representation -- I submit that democracy can only be
best served with proportional representation of both different
ethnic groups as well as political ideologies.
In India, some minority christian denominations are
not likely to be represented. The
federal government allocates this group a seat in the Parliament as
it does for representatives of the arts, sciences, etc.
In B.C., the large majority of the Indo-Canadian community is
made up of Sikhs and they are fully representated by their all-Sikh
MLAs in Victoria. Hindus form India, East Africa and Fiji are left
out.
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