Why I'm Not In Favor Of Proportional Voting
heres a summary but I say more in the video
1. We Switch From Electing People to Electing Parties
We are switching the focus from electing a person we know from our area to represent us, to electing a party for the province. I know most people vote for a person because they are in a party. But our "first past the post" system was set up so that all the little regions and towns in the province would elect a representative from their peers and have a say in government. Now the focus would be on getting the desired outcome for the political parties, not the collective body of persons who represent us.
2. Proportional Representation Fiddles With The Results and Is Confusing
If you tried to read the booklet that came out a couple of weeks ago describing proportional voting you were probably confused. Even the rep that came around promoting it said he found it confusing! A child in school can understand voting for a team captain, but we are about to adopt a system adults can't even understand???? The confusion is around adjusting the outcome of the election! Think about it, we may elect one person and they send in an additional person to "balance" out the results. Excuse me if I don't trust any of this. How we elect people to the provincial legislature should be simple and clear.
BTW I've spent lots of time in countries with proportional voting systems, It is chaotic. Lots of parties, and of juggling, and alliances. "It's a schmoz"
schmoz definition:A frenzy in real estate that occurs when a seller, usually a bank, deliberately under-prices a property to quickly generate multiple offers. The winning buyer usually offers way above the asking price to thwart other buyers but ironically ends up paying market value or above. All of the other buyers unwittingly waste their time.
3. We Already Have Proportional Voting - It's In Our Own Riding
We need to understand that we already proportional voting in our riding. The person that gets the largest percentage of votes here in Campbell River wins. This is the genius of our current system. It's about fair representation LOCALLY - of our own town, or city or riding. They go to the City Hall, the Legislature, or Ottawa, it's all the same and fair. The change to our system would take this away from us in order to hand power to political parties. Our current system of government is based on fair, local representation by people.
4. I Don't Trust The Current Political Climate
There is an agenda to overthrow western government as we know it, and move towards socialism and centralized power, even world government, and we are part of it. In a U.N. document some years ago they proposed to flood the USA with 600 million migrants over a twenty year period. Think overflow. I'm not against orderly immigration, but changing our voting system to represent sheer numbers instead of local communities just doesn't sit well with me in this political climate. Am I imagining things? mmmm
IMAGINE
A school is going to elect a Student Council. They have grades eight to twelve and each grade can elect one student from their peers. For years it's been done this way, but this year grade eight has three times the number of students. "It's not fair" they cry ... "change the system". So now grade eight has three reps on student council, and the thirteen year olds are in charge.
Enough said
Be Blessed
Terry
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