Electoral reform unnecessary: Fraser Institute
Posted Aug 30, 2016 7:37 am.
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“Leave the electoral process alone” — that the message from a well-known Canadian think tank as the Trudeau government considers looking at reforming the country’s election laws.
The Fraser Institute is out with an essay defending the current First Past the Post system.
John Pepall helped write the paper, and says everything is fine the way it is.
“The way we do it now is not technical, it’s straight forward, it works, it allows voters to decide, and if you look at the alternatives, none of them make sense,” he said.
The paper argues proportional representation makes it hard to vote out a party, pointing out over the past 50 years, only six governments have fallen in 103 elections held in countries using that method.
