The Canadian government will soon postally mail literature to every household in Canada, informing readers that they are invited to visit a government web page and express themselves about proposals to change the electoral system, possibly to proportional representation. See this story.
The DARK AGE Brit gerrymander stuff was carried into Canada after the Brits conquered Canada in the now ancient French and Indian War in the 1750s-1760s.
Modern result — Canada is one more TYRANT Parliamentary regime of robot party hacks — many having both legislative and executive powers.
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BASIC P.R. in legislative bodies to save Democracy —
Party Members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Votes
The PV/TV is the *proportional* math part.
Difficult ONLY for math MORONS and incumbent gerrymander HACK monsters from Hell — of which there are lots — in the UK, USA, Canada, India, etc.
It is weird when there is an all-parties committee considering the matter, that the Government is going ahead with a separate mailing.
The only problem with proportional representation is when you really want to vote for a particular person rather than a party.
Brandon L,
There are some systems of proportional representation that allow you to vote for a particular person – most notably single transferable vote, which is used in Ireland and had been used in the US at the local level. It also works in non-partisan elections.
Brandon, that’s one of the reasons you use mixed-member. Single-Transferable for District Elections, and then you adjust the amount of seats each party has based on a proportional state-wide vote, and fill out the remaining seats that way. So you’d have 1/2 to 2/3rds of the seats through Single-Transferable, and then you fill out the final 1/3rd to 1/2 of the seats with a open list proportional representation process.