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<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone<br>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.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Democracy means <i>the people rule</i>. Representative democracy means <i>the people rule through their elected representatives</i>.<br></font></div><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Therefore, if representative democracy is to be truly rendered, the will of the people must be accurately represented.<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">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.<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#5f497a" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">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.<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5f497a"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">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! </font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">It's called <em>progress</em>. Proportional representation <em>is</em> democracy. Let's insist on it.</font></font></div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a"></font></font> </div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a"><img style="vertical-align: text-bottom;" title="Peace" alt="Peace" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/ids_emoticon_peace.gif" width="19" height="19"></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#7030a0" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#5f497a">Rick Fairman</font></font></div></div>
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