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<div><b>From:</b> Fair Vote Canada - Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@fairvote.ca></div><div><b>To:</b> David Dirks <daviddirks@rogers.com></div><div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 11:22:35 PM EDT</div><div><b>Subject:</b> UPDATE - BREAKING NEWS: Toronto Star endorses proportional representation</div><div><br></div>
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landed in last week, should embrace that idea and stick with it. The NDP and Greens already support PR."</blockquote><p style="Margin:1em 0px;Margin-bottom:0px;">This news is a huge win for all PR advocates across Canada. Share it now:</p></td>
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official endorsement of proportional representation today as <strong>"the right thing to do"</strong> is a win for all of you who have been tireless advocates and supporters of PR.<br><br>Today, a vote that counts for Ontario voters and for all Canadians just came one step closer. <br><br>Anita</p></td>
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system. "Majority governments should have the consent of a majority of voters."</blockquote><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Ted Cragg of Fair Vote Canada was also interviewed on CBC’s <a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230845&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All in a Day</a>:</p><blockquote>"It feels like a broken record, we’ve been through this so many times, federally and in other provinces. Why are some voters fortunate enough to live in swing ridings, while others live in safe seats where the same party wins most of the time, so they feel less inclined to vote… Every vote should have a direct outcome on the
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winner-take-all ranked ballot only helps the Liberals―at the expense of other voters.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">In the 2015 federal election, with first-past-the-post, the Liberals won 184 seats―that’s 54% of the seats and all the power with just 39.5% of the vote.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Had Trudeau’s preferred winner-take-all ranked ballot system been used instead, <strong>the Liberals would have won a whopping <a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230850&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">224 seats</a> (66%), shutting out the voices of even more voters!</strong></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Simulations of Ontario provincial elections going back for decades also show that winner-take-all ranked ballot just funnels more votes to the Liberal Party, <strong>while doing nothing to fix our adversarial, dysfunctional politics.</strong></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;"><strong>If a winner-take-all ranked ballot had been used in the recent Ontario provincial election, Doug Ford still would have won a “majority” government with a minority of the popular vote.</strong> But the Liberals would have picked up a handful more seats in the process.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Australia has used winner-take-all ranked ballot for a century. It’s produced nothing but unaccountable, false majority governments. The last time Australia
had a minority government―where the governing party actually had to listen to anyone else―was in 1940.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;"><span style="background-color:#ffff00;"><strong>To tackle the long-term challenges ahead, we need an electoral system that will encourage our parties to work together for the common good.</strong></span></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;"><strong>Only proportional representation can deliver that.</strong></span></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Courageous political leadership on electoral reform is not for the faint of heart. And the turkeys aren’t in a hurry to plan
Thanksgiving.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;"><strong>That’s why we need politicians to get out of the way and let informed citizens lead.</strong></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">With your support, we’ll continue to build grassroots power to demand that our political leaders convene a non-partisan, independent <strong><a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230851&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform</a></strong>.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Fairness, voter equality and cooperative politics must be at the heart of any reform.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Together,
we’ll keep fighting until we Make Every Vote Count. </p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;">Sincerely,</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;"><br>Anita Nickerson<br>Executive Director, Fair Vote Canada</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;Margin-bottom:0px;">P.S. Do you want to help Fair Vote Canada grow? <br><strong><a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230852&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Donate,<br></a></strong><span style="color:#871b21;"><strong><a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230853&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Volunteer</a></strong></span>, or <br><span style="color:#871b21;"><strong><a href="https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/url&u=230854&qid=22437445" style="color: rgb(135, 27, 33); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ask a friend to support us by signing the Declaration of Voters' Rights</a></strong></span>!</p></td>
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