I’m not too excited about Trudeau’s much-ballyhooed plan to scrap our voting system
I’m not defending the status quo nor am I minimizing the impact of changing our electoral process. Certainly the voting process matters a lot to the political classes. But what really matters isn’t ‘how’ we elect our leaders, it’s ‘why.’
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Please forgive me, but I just can’t get too excited about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s much ballyhooed plan to scrap our voting system.
And yeah, I know all the arguments about how our current “first-past-the-post” voting method, whereby citizens simply scratch an “X...
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