Who is suggesting candidates be appointed by party leaders?
The following is a comment I made to a question posted on open forum made available by the Vote for MMP site (Note: The opponents to MMP seem not to provide a forum for open discussion at all).It is...
View ArticleMMP Comic, MMP and Me
I find I am really enjoying reading the BLOGs on the VoteForMMP site. Unlike the opponents to MMP who seem to not allow open discussion, this BLOG includes MMP skeptics who then get reasoned replies to...
View ArticlePresenting The Facts about MMP to anyone who will listen
There is an opponent to MMP who blogs on the Vote For MMP website. He seems uninterested in entering debate, and only interested in posting articles which will confuse people who go to the site. To his...
View ArticleWhat if you support an electoral system other than FPTP or MMP?
I went to a debate this afternoon at Ottawa City Hall where there was someone from the Vote For FPTP (First Past the Post - they call themselves NoMMP even though Yes and No isn't part of the question)...
View ArticleWould Ms. Copps deny the residents of Greater Sudbury a vote?
A copy of one of Sheila Copps attacks on electoral modernization is circulating around in email in Northern Ontario.The first thing people need to realize is that Ms. Copps was herself nominated to...
View ArticleAll MMP Candidates To Be Nominated Democratically
According to an article on VoteForMMP as well as DemocraticSpace, the 4 parties that make up 98.6% of the votes in 2003 have all officially committed to holding democratic nominations for list...
View ArticleFaith-based Funding and One School System
My School Trustee has posted an article about Faith-based Funding and One School System written a few days ago.It is interesting that Mr. Tory is trying to have it both ways as well now in that he...
View ArticleReport Card on Ontario Parties' Good Government Promises
As part of Democracy Watch's coverage of the Ontario Election and Referendum 2007 they have released a Report Card on Ontario Parties' Good Government Promises.Report Card Reveals No Matter Which Party...
View ArticlePerfect Proposal? How might the MMP proposal affect Northern Ontario?
The following is posted as a comment on the blog for TVO's The Agenda.I wanted to post a comment in favor of the MMP proposal, partly in reply to the last comment.The purpose of the Citizens Assembly...
View ArticleReplies to questions from Dalton McGuinty, Ottawa South Liberal candidate
I received the following as a reply to the questions I sent to Ottawa South candidates. Mr. McGuinty was only one of two candidates who replied thus far, and I'm thankful that he and his team took the...
View ArticleFewer riding representatives in Northern Ontario? Not likely.
While I currently live in Ottawa, I grew up in Sudbury. There is a fear in Northern Ontario that the MMP proposal could reduce the representation in Northern Ontario even more than has happened in the...
View ArticleOntario democracy fails faith-based test of maturity
A Toronto Star article by Haroon Siddiqui suggests that, "Not all opposition to funding religious schools is driven by bigotry. But much of it is, as candidates from the election trenches attest."read...
View ArticleWhy blog the Ontario Referendum on this site? Why Vote For MMP?
Given this BLOG has been predominantly about federal technology law issues like copyrights and patents, it might have seemed unusual that I've been blogging about the Ontario Referendum and election so...
View ArticleLess strategic voting this election due to referendum?
Listening to the campaign this year I notice something different. A hallmark of nearly every election I've voted in federally or provincially has been candidates (primarily Liberal or Conservative)...
View ArticleDisappointments with Ontario election.
I watched the election last night up to the point it was clear we lost the referendum, and that the possible breakthrough for Ontario's 4'th party was lost in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. Had Shane Jolley...
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