David Eby’s last minute plea to BC voters to abandon Emily Lowan’s Greens comes in the face of projections showing that the BC Conservatives are likely to form a false majority government with as ...
Quebecers may have just narrowly escaped another referendum on breaking up the country. Our first-past-the-post electoral system is to blame for putting national unity at risk. With a few more votes ...
In the 2022 Vancouver municipal election Ken Sim’s ABC Party won a whopping 70% of seats on Vancouver City Council with just 35% of the vote. The voices of hundreds of thousands of Vancouver voters ...
Since the collapse of the BC Liberals just before the last election, the number of parties and independents on the political right in BC is increasing at a rapid pace — heightening the risk of an even ...
Alberta’s separatist movement isn’t caused by our voting system, but first-past-the-post helped create the conditions for it to flourish. In 1979, the Task Force on Canadian Unity issued a warning ...
Si on cherche sérieusement à s’attaquer au changement climatique, cela va exiger la coopération entre les partis poliqiques et une perspective axée sur le long terme. Les modes de scrutin uninominaux ...
Avi Lewis’s leadership win comes with a promise, one which he repeated often during the leadership campaign: “If we control the balance of power, we will go in with one demand and change the electoral ...
When NDP House Leader Alexandre Boulerice asserted that Mark Carney is “governing like he has a majority” in a minority Parliament, that didn’t even begin to capture the power grab staring us in the ...
BC all-party committee recommends a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform! New polling shows BC voters support proportional representation. BC’s Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has just ...
The BC NDP and BC Green Party's “Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord” included an agreement for an all-party Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform. This committee includes five BC NDP ...
As Chantal Hebert noted during CBC’s election night coverage, “I think this is what it looks like when you have a two-party system.” The results of this election demonstrate, once again, that Canada’s ...
Fair Vote Canada applauds Mark Carney’s positive statements about working on electoral reform. We strongly support his position that the Prime Minister’s personal opinion shouldn’t decide the issue - ...