[fvc-wat-disc] Responding to the Record's stupid editorial

[ARI DAIGEN]

Hi everyone,

I have another letter that anyone can send to the Record who hasn't already 
been published. Their editorial today *really* ticked me off, *completely* 
stupid reasoning, and they should be flamed for it. Here's what I wrote, if 
you want to put your name on it, please do so and send!

Ari

(Title) The Record is wrong--MMP increases democracy

While the Record should be praised for the attention that it has given to 
the issue of electoral reform, its October 6 editorial on the subject missed 
the forest for the trees.

It claimed that the proposed mixed-member system will harm local 
representation and give too much power to party leaders--as if party leaders 
don't completely dominate the backbenchers that are supposed to "represent" 
individual ridings under the current system. It also treats as a minor 
detail the most important fact about the current system: that under it, 
Ontarians consistently get majority governments that most of them voted 
against.

Voting for mixed-member proportional representation on October 10 is the 
most important thing that any of us can do to improve democracy in Ontario.