[fvc-wat-disc] fvc-wat-disc Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7

[Eleanor Grant]

Very interesting, Anita.

What I'd like to know is, when and why did the Harper gov't change its mind
and allow the Tunisian Cdns to vote at their embassy in Montreal?  After
originally claiming it would be a threat to Cdn sovereignty.

Eleanor

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> From: "Anita" <lanickerson at b2b2c.ca>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:48:15 -0400
> Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] Tunisia
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> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/10/22/mtl-cdnvotetunisia.html
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> First election in Tunisia. They are using a closed list PR system, most
> common in Europe, with districts of 5-9 seats. There are up *80 parties*with lists on the voter's ballot, many of them only running in certain
> regions. The article I read yesterday said that there is a polling ban
> during the campaign to prevent tactical voting. It could result in a first
> legislature consisting of *dozens of parties winning one seat*. Yet not
> once did the CBC story comment that it would be "complicated", "chaotic",
> "unaccountable", "unstable" or any of the baloney we get when somebody
> proposes a system in Canada whereby* 3 or 4 stable parties with broad
> based support* would have to figure out how to cooperate!! Instead, it's
> all about the wonders of voters having choices...
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