Dear Editor:
Anyone with a social conscience and who cares for their community knows that our present first-past-the-post voting system best serves the interests of big business and of political leaders who strive to hang onto their majority no matter what the vote count. Think Campbell, Clark, Trudeau, and the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of British Columbia’s lost bid to get a court injunction against the electoral reform referendum.
B.C. came close to proportional representation in 2005 with 57.7 per cent and a majority in 77 out of 79 ridings. Our Citizens Assembly had designed an excellent B.C.-specific voting system called single transferable vote.
Almost all progressive democracies use some form of PR. It is high time Canada got on board.
In this referendum, I am voting “yes” and “Rural-Urban."
Roger Sweeny
West Vancouver
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