Submission WARD-0866 (Online)

Proportional representation [PR] cripples parliament and negates the majority public vote.  We become a country governed by special interest groups with no relief or solution to the problem.  [1 page]

Please do not go for proportional representation [PR].  it sounds great in theory but results in too many small parties with special interests and invariably brings forth an undemocratic parliament because coalition parties have to be formed and invariably a small group dominates the majority and insists on its agenda in defiance of the majority vote.  Israel has been held up from a solution to the Palestinian problem for decades by a small (1%) religious right wing party. It looks like we are headed for an example of the same with the coalition between the liberals and the NDP but this will be resolved in time under our present federal rules. But proportional representation cripples parliament and negates the majority public vote and that problem never gets solved. We become a country governed by special interest groups with no relief or solution to the problem. Please make sure that the vote of the common man counts.