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Letter to Educators from ChairDear BC Educators,
British Columbia has led the world’s democracies by
turning over the important question of electoral reform to
citizens. Learning about the work of the Citizens'
Assembly on Electoral Reform is a terrific opportunity to inspire
your students while achieving prescribed learning outcomes.
By bringing the Citizens’ Assembly into your
classroom, you can engage your students with a real-life democratic
issue. Your students can use resources on this website
to learn about BC’s current voting system and BC-STV,
the recommended system. Once they've had a chance to
think about the issues, your students can help the province prepare
for this historic referendum by sharing their voices with their
communities.
Many young people and teachers participated in the spring 2004
public hearings and in written submissions, which are posted on
this website. Citizens’ Assembly members
did their work “for the future citizens of this
province” and I hope that young people will be a part
of this exciting process.
The Citizens’ Assembly was an independent,
non-partisan group of 160 British Columbians who were given the
power to make a recommendation to the people of this
province. It reviewed the way our votes are translated
into seats in the provincial Legislature. Now that the
Assembly, in its Final Report, recommended a change to BC-STV, this
decision goes directly to voters in a May 17, 2005 referendum.
To assist you with bringing BC-STV and the Citizens’
Assembly into your classroom, please use the learning resources
available here on our website. The Final Report is also
available at libraries and government agencies, if you haven't yet
recieved a copy.
I do hope you will incorporate the question of electoral reform
into your lessons, and take advantage of this groundbreaking effort
in participatory democracy.
Sincerely,
Jack Blaney, Chair
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