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<b>Subject:</b> Electoral reform revival? Support
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style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><strong><span
style="background-color:#FFFFFF">Electoral
reform
revival?
Support for
changing
voting systems
skyrockets
post election</span></strong></span></span><br>
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color:rgb(0,0,0)!important"> <em>After popular vote win, CPC supporters
now outpace
Liberals in
support for
proportional
representation</em></h3>
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text-align:left"> <strong>November 21, 2019 – </strong>The wake of the
43<sup>rd</sup>
Canadian
federal
election
campaign
appears to
have churned
up support for
a certain
policy change
long thought
lost to the
depths of a
watery
political
grave:
electoral
reform.</p>
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style="margin:10px
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font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:150%;
text-align:left"> A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute
finds support
surging – post
election – for
the promise
the Trudeau
Liberal
government
killed in
2017.</p>
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<p
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text-align:left"> Likely motivated by their preferred party receiving
the most votes
yet falling
short in the
House of
Commons in a
first-past-the-post
electoral
system,
Conservative
preference for
proportional
representation
has more than
doubled.</p>
<p
style="margin:10px
0; padding:0;
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font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size:15px; line-height:150%;
text-align:left"> Seven-in-ten (69%) who supported the CPC in October
say they would
change the
electoral
system,
compared to
just 28 per
cent of party
supporters who
said this when
the Institute
canvassed the
same issue at
the beginning
of 2016.</p>
<p
style="margin:10px
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text-align:left"> It’s not just a spike in support on the right of the
political
spectrum,
however.
Increasing
approval
across all
parties has
transformed
this – at
least for now
– from a
divisive to a
consensus
issue. In
2016, just
over half
(53%) wanted
to keep
first-past-the-post
while the rest
wanted to move
to
proportional
representation.
Today, more
than
two-thirds
(68%) now say
that they
would prefer
Canada change
its voting
system.</p>
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