I favour a mixed member proportional (MMP) form of
representation, and a voting system that will provide it.
My reasons: I am tired of having no representation in government
for all of the people who did not vote for the "governing" party. I
am tired of having parties voted in to absolute power who did not
achieve a majority of, or even the most, votes. I do not believe
that one party should have the right to govern solely, when so many
voters have other values that deserve to be heard and considered in
all government decisions.
MMP may very well give rise to minority govenments that must
co-operate with other parties. To me, that is an advnatage. I think
it would minimize the swings from one type of policy to another
with changes in "governing party." Those policy shifts are
expensive to us, the taxpayers, and not often representative of
what most of us want done with our tax dollars. I hope that a MMP
system would allow more viewpoints to be heard and considered in
government decison-making, and that it would be less convenient for
government to ignore hard science and our future in order to favour
short-term economic interests.
I want government that is much more truly representative of the
diversity that is one of our strengths as a province. And I want
more people to vote; I feel that, when there is real
hope of having their views represented in government, more people
will vote -- with a MMP system.
Thank you for considering my views
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