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color=#333333>The recent Macleans of Sept 18 had an interview of David Johnston
by Paul Wells.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Based
on that interview I sent the following letter to Macleans’
editors.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">I have
heard nothing from them and suspect they will ignore this
letter.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">I know
it’s not easy to get letters accepted, especially if the editors have a bias
against the ideas presented.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">However, our discussion group last night
emphasized we must keep doing everything possible to keep ER and the
government’s broken promise out there in the media and in front of the public
and the MPs.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">While
some strategies may wait until closer to the election, letters to the media can
be ongoing and frequent at every opportunity.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">If
possible, social media connections could be useful as well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#333333 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Dave
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN lang=EN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en">In Paul Wells’ conversation
with David Johnston in the September 18 issue of Macleans, Johnston states that,
if you wanted to name countries around the world that seem to have government
that pretty well satisfies the needs of the vast majority of people and has a
degree of trust, you’d probably have on that list: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. He asks what’s
common to those? They’re all constitutional monarchies with vigorous
parliamentary democracies. So, according to Johnston, something has been working
well for us.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN lang=EN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en">Johnston also states that in
the Edelman Trust survey, for the first time in eight years, Canada is a
“distrustor nation.” More than 50 per cent of our population don’t trust their
public institutions. So we’re now in the middle of the pack on that. We used to
be in the top third.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN lang=EN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en">I point out that all eight
countries, with the exception of Canada, have stronger representative
democracies than Canada with the use of proportional representation PR. Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, and New Zealand have fully proportional
democracies. Australia uses a proportional system for their senate and ranked
ballot for the house of representatives. Although the United Kingdom uses
first-past-the-post for the house of commons, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland use proportional systems for their own parliaments created in 1998.
These countries join 90% of all EU and OECD countries that use proportional
representation. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN lang=EN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en">Trudeau promised that 2015
would be the last federal election using first-past-the-post. He set up a
special committee on electoral reform that received testimony and written
submissions from thousands of Canadians and held town hall meetings across
Canada. The vast majority of those supported proportional representation. They
did not support Trudeau’s preference for a ranked or preferential ballot,
another winner-take-all system that would have clearly benefited the Liberal
Party. As a result, Trudeau broke his promise and dropped electoral reform
saying there was no consensus. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN lang=EN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en">I join the many Canadians whose
trust in our flawed and unfair electoral system has been further diminished by
our prime minister’s broken promise. His promise to base policy on evidence does
not warrant trust. Evidence from other countries shows that PR countries have
better representation for all citizens, more cooperation and consensus, better
long range planning, less partisan politics, fewer distorted results, and better
government in general.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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