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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Electoral reform'
Corporations are people too
January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 3 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes
Tags: accountability·B.C. government·corporations·democracy·Electoral reform·Municipalities·STV & electoral reform
Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly
April 30th, 2009 · Marc Lee · 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 [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·deliberative democracy·Electoral reform·Fair Vote Canada·Fair Voting BC·FPTP·MMP·Wendy Bergerud·Women
