Submission WEATHERILL-0786 (Online)

Each riding has multiple representatives, whose voting power reflects the PR distribution within that riding. [1 page]

I am in favour of straight PR, but at the riding level, where each riding has multiple representatives, whose voting power reflects the PR distribution within that riding. But I would have fewer ridings than we do now. Parliament would be made up of approximately the same 308 members, but representing only 100 ridings. There would be no such thing as a "majority government" (unless a single party got a stated percentage in excess of (say) 66%), and there would also be no "platform" (which a party always manages to skirt around once it is power). There would only be the motions and bills put forward by the representatives, and according to the points they ran on. These would be voted on in free votes, by secret ballot.  As one person said to me of late: "Parliament should deal with the issues of the country, once an election is over. All the parties put forward some good ideas, but it is only the governing party that gets to implement theirs, and not all of their ideas are good ones".