Proportional Representation Information Links

Proportional Representation for Canada

  

Court Charter Challenge:

Our Charter guarantees us effective representation, but the Prime Minister reneged on changing our discriminatory voting system. Pledge your support to take the government to court!

https://charterchallenge.ca/

E-Petition for Electoral Reform to Government of Canada: http://bit.ly/NCprPET

PR Information Links:

1. Why Trudeau Is Wrong, As He Declares Preference For NON-Proportional Ranked Ballot: #ERRE http://bit.ly/ARavVSpr
2. Fair Vote Canada (FVC): http://www.fairvote.ca/
3. FVC Frequently Asked Questions: http://campaign2015.fairvote.ca/faqs/
4. FVC resource section: http://campaign2015.fairvote.ca/resources/
5. Wasted Votes: http://wastedvotes.ca/
6. Law Commission of Canada Report, summarized: http://bit.ly/lawcompr PDF full report: http://bit.ly/LCCer
7. UK's Jenkins Commission Report, summarized: http://bit.ly/jenksum PDF full report: http://bit.ly/Jenkinspr
8. Professional Lijphardt's testimony at#ERRE Aug 22/2016: http://bit.ly/2bn1RZH
9. Rural-Urban Proportional - http://www.fairvote.ca/ruralurbanproportional
10. Summary of Rural-Urban PR - http://election-modelling.ca/rup-15pct/index.html
11. MMP for Canada: http://wilfday.blogspot.ca/2016/03/mmp-for-canada.html
12. STV for Canada: http://www.stvforcanada.com/
13. Overview of Different Electoral Systems: http://election-modelling.ca/overview/index.html
14. Vote For PR Now: http://voteforoptiona.webs.com/vote-for-pr-now
15. Wilf Day's Blog - in depth searchable info on all types of electoral reform: http://wilfday.blogspot.ca/
16. Whoa Canada Blog - List of PR Resources: http://bit.ly/WCprblog
17. Map of Different Types of Electoral Systems Around The World: http://bit.ly/electworld
18. Table of Electoral Systems Worldwide http://www.idea.int/esd/world.cfm
19. Electoral Reform Society of the UK: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems 
20. ARGH!!! What are 'Ranked Ballots'? http://bit.ly/RnkdBlts

#ERRE Committe Reports and Mandate  

1. Mandate for the Committee on Electoral Reform. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Committees/en/ERRE/About Right click and open link in new tab and then click on the word 'Mandate'.
   
2. Complete 348 page #ERRE Final Report STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY IN CANADA: PRINCIPLES, PROCESS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR ELECTORAL REFORM
   Web Format: http://bit.ly/ERRErpt
   PDF Format:  http://bit.ly/ERRErptPDF
3. Link to all Meetings, Reports, News Releases & Documents http://bit.ly/RptsSum
4. Modelling Elections PDF includes summary table of various Canadian electoral systems under consideration: http://bit.ly/SumChrtPR
5. Gallagher Index Made Easy: http://gallagherindex.blogspot.ca/
6. Overview of Featured Simulations: http://election-modelling.ca/overview/index.html

  

Videos:

1. Our Democracy is Broken - A great introductory video to our current system and to PR: https://youtu.be/jZO_Wyy2zpo
2. Problems with FPTP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
3. MMP: MMP Introduction Video & MMP Advanced Video
4. STV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4_yuK-K-k
5. More videos: http://bit.ly/vidsPRop

Other Links:

1. 10 Cdn commissions, studies & reports recommending PR for Canada: http://wilfday.blogspot.com/2014/01/ten-canadian-commissions-assemblies-and.html
2. The Difference in Allocating/Counting votes on Ranked Ballots in NON-proportional Winner-Take-All AV aka IRV and Proportional STV: http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page11118.aspx 
3. Flow Chart Comparison of vote allocation when using a ranked ballot in STV versus IRV: http://bit.ly/fcIRVSTV http://bit.ly/AVSTVcount 
4. Party List PR - Open List - Closed List - Definitions: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/party-list 
5. Example Proportional Representation Ballots: http://bit.ly/OAballotspr or http://bit.ly/prBALLOTS or http://bit.ly/PRballots3 
6. Example Non-PR (Winner Take All) Ballots: http://bit.ly/WTAballots
7. How the wording of a referendum can affect the outcome: http://www.prvote.com/