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Submission GRAHAM-0588 (Online)

Submission ByMs Carol Graham
AddressCampbell River, BC, Canada
Organization
Date20040608
CategoryElectoral system change
Abstract
I favour of a province-wide proportional representation [PR] system. I am much more concerned to have my political point of view reflected in the legislature than to have an MLA who supposedly represents the community where I live. [1 page]

Submission Content
I am in favour of a province-wide proportional representation [PR] system which would accurately reflect the number of votes made for each political party in provincial elections. With e-mail and web-sites I feel I could keep in touch with my representative even if he/she lived at a distance. I am much more concerned to have my political point of view reflected in the provincial legislature than to have an MLA who supposedly represents the community where I live.

At present we have a politically one-sided legislature, even though many people in the province voted for other political parties. This has been taken as a decisive 'mandate' by the governing part when statistically it appears to be anything but.

Perhaps the existence of proportional representation might neccessitate more co-operation between political parties and even coalition government. In my view this would be no bad thing. It would be great to see all parties in the legislature problem solving situations with the good of all BC citizens in mind, rather than some party political agenda. Idealistic maybe, but these are my views. An injection if idealism and vision into our provincial electoral system may be just what is needed.

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