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Entries Tagged as 'Electoral reform'

Corporations are people too

January 31st, 2010 · · 3 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes

Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old [...]

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Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly

April 30th, 2009 · · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform

One of the most interesting stories behind BC’s Single Transferable Vote referendum is how we got there. The Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform ran for a year, a fascinating exercise in deliberative democracy, and perhaps the most interesting and forward-looking thing done by the Liberals in their first term. Wendy Bergerud was a CA member [...]

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