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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Yes, a good letter. However, the total number of MPs needs to considered.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I think I favour MMP, that is, a mixed form that includes geographical ridings using FPTP with added MPs based on the proportional totals.</p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s important that our 338 ridings would likely be reduced to possibly 225 to allow for the 113 added MPs.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Locally, we would have probably 4 rather 6 ridings.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I can’t see that would be a problem or unacceptable to Canadians.</p><p class=MsoNormal>In fact, the added MPs could be assigned using some kind of geographic relevance to give constituents more than one MP to connect to.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Then urban-rural does a modification as well.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com">Jennifer Ross</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 2, 2021 1:44 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] Fwd: [pr-writers] Letter in Kitchener Record</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you haven't seen this: <span class=gmail-im><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2021/09/01/more-action-is-needed-on-electoral-reform-in-canada.html" target="_blank">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2021/09/01/more-action-is-needed-on-electoral-reform-in-canada.html</a></span> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bookkeeping Services</span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>519-501-2736</span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#888888'>No other Western democratic country concentrates as much political power in the hands of one person as Canada does with her Prime Minister. </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><h1 style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>More action is needed on electoral reform in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style='margin-top:.25in;margin-bottom:.5in;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:.3pt'>Wed., Sept. 1, 2021</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Material Icons",serif;color:#333333'>timer</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:.3pt'>1 min. read</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F8F8F8'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>I am passionate about the need to reform Canada’s first-past-the post electoral system if our democracy is to thrive. I join many other Canadians in calling for a citizen’s assembly to discuss an evolution of our democracy at the federal and provincial levels. In Canada’s current first-past-the-post system, the candidate who gets the most votes in a geographical area gets a seat in Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F8F8F8;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.75rem'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>I favour a further evolution of our democracy to mixed form of first-past-the post and proportional representation. At the federal and provincial level there would still be geographical ridings, and the candidate getting the most votes in each riding would get a seat in parliament. This protects rural areas from being dominated by cities with a higher population. However, other politicians would be elected based on the percentage of votes cast for each party. This prevents governments from having absolute control to govern with, say, less than 35 per cent of the votes cast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:#F8F8F8;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.75rem'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>Here’s another suggestion: My MP and/or MPP must vote according to the party line, and doesn’t have the choice to vote with how the constituents may feel. How does this represent them? Instead, the representative could balance the needs of the party, the constituents and their own conscience when they decide how to vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border-top:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.25rem'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F8F8F8'><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Myron Daniel SteinmanKitchener</span></i><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=708 height=1 style='width:7.375in;height:.0104in' id="Horizontal_x0020_Line_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D7A00B.9E88F860"></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>