[fvc-wat-disc] letter to editor

[Anita]

Awesome letter, Richard!! Thank you for sharing it. 

You're allowed to write one letter every two months - maybe that limit only counts for the ones that go in their paper version. What I usually do is try to tie the call for PR (our broken record message that we can't repeat often enough) to something in the recent news or an opinion column in the paper - may make them more likely to print it. Never any lack of topics to tag the need for PR on to, since pretty much everything the government is doing the majority can't stand, and would very likely not be happening if we had equal and effective votes.

Anita

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Fairman 
  To: Fair Vote Canada Wat Disc Group 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:01 PM
  Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] letter to editor


  Hello Everyone
  I sent this letter-to-the-editor at The Record, to which they responded saying that they would publish it. It was not published in print but to my knowledge only in their on-line version of Jan. 30 and then, at that, only hidden under "view more articles" that must be clicked in order to be viewed.  Why did they even bother?  Clearly, The Record disagrees with the sentiments.
  Democracy means the people rule. Representative democracy means the people rule through their elected representatives.

  Therefore, if representative democracy is to be truly rendered, the will of the people must be accurately represented.

  The Canadian electoral method fails democracy by typically awarding false, 60 percent majorities to parties with as little as 35 percent of the electorate's actual support. Thus, the will of the people is typically deceived, defrauded and deposed, and consequently, the resultant government illegitimate.

  Only an accurately proportionate voting system mirrors, honours and serves the supreme will of the people; hence, only proportional representation can be true to the first principles of democracy.

  Let's repudiate our charade of an electoral system, a system that usurps precedence over democracy itself, a system that's been in place since women were deprived of the right to vote and is as morally repugnant. Let's get it right Canada! It's called progress. Proportional representation is democracy. Let's insist on it.

  Rick Fairman


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