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Former B.C. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh Warns Against Change To Proportional Representation

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Jun, 2018 12:41 PM
    VANCOUVER — Former British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh is urging voters to say No to a referendum on proportional representation because he believes it will usher in extremist parties like those in some European countries.
     
     
    Dosanjh says Germany, the Netherlands and Hungary require very low percentages of people to vote in candidates with racist views, and that has changed their political landscape in a negative way.
     
     
    The former New Democrat premier says the party he once led is proposing a proportional representation system that would allow five per cent of voters to elect extremist members of the legislature.
     
     
    B.C. voters will be asked if they want to switch to proportional representation and if they do, they will be required to rank one of three systems, two of which have never been tried anywhere.
     
     
    Dosanjh is backing a group vying for funding to campaign against proportional representation before a referendum to be conducted by mail-in ballot between Oct. 22 and Nov. 30.
     
     
    He says the current first-past-the-post system is simple, as opposed to the proposed system, which he calls confusing and complicated.

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