VOTE NO TO MMP

There are winners and there are losers and if you put your money on a loser your don't get your money back at the pari-mutuel wicket so why should you in an election?

Jonathan Kay on why Andrew Coyne is wrong about proportional representation

Andrew Coyne is such a consistently sensible columnist that, as a matter of instinct, I am tempted to substitute his opinion for mine when the two conflict. But I will eagerly resist this temptation in the case of proportional representation (PR), an electoral system that Andrew has repeatedly endorsed as a superior alternative to the first-past-the-post scheme that Canadians currently use to elect MPs and provincial legislators. Unlike him, I would urge Ontarians to vote no in the October 10 provincial referendum on mixed-member proportional representation (MMP), a hybrid system whereby 30% of MPPs elected through PR methodology.

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No to MMP Says Study

There's a new conservative-oriented group out there called the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies which is doing some interesting stuff.

And one of the interesting things they have done is release a study examining whether or not Ontarians should support a new electoral system -- otherwise known as Mixed Member Proportional Representation.

Their conclusion: Thumbs Down.

Riddle me this?

So, there's a lot of debate as to how the lists will function in MMP. I think the other side of this debate is talking out of both sides of their mouth on a couple of points. I heard Marilyn Churley on TVO make one of the mistakes. And now the Liberals for MMP site is making the other one. Here are two problems........

......Posted by aginsberg