Hi, Guest
09-26-2007, 01:58 AM
Current system: you elect who you want based on the candidates for your riding. First to get the most votes per riding wins. Balanced, fair, creates either a majority (dictatorship-by-proxy?) or a minority (either far better or far worse, depending) government at the provincial and federal levels.
Proposed system: A vote for the riding's candidiate of choice and a vote for the party. The party with the most votes gets to parachute in NON-ELECTED, by-appointment-only (OMGPATRONAGE) additional bureaucrats with an as-yet-undetermined level of accountability to the public. Creates a mixed-representation government.
Personally, for all its flaws, I'm voting to leave things as they are. It's bad enough each majority party has done the "parachute candidate" thing before, but it's another to do it AFTER the election with ZERO consultation with the voting public.
They're basically asking you to vote for, and approve of, blatant patronage.
Anyone voting for this has SQUAT to say about patronage at all after that point.
Proposed system: A vote for the riding's candidiate of choice and a vote for the party. The party with the most votes gets to parachute in NON-ELECTED, by-appointment-only (OMGPATRONAGE) additional bureaucrats with an as-yet-undetermined level of accountability to the public. Creates a mixed-representation government.
Personally, for all its flaws, I'm voting to leave things as they are. It's bad enough each majority party has done the "parachute candidate" thing before, but it's another to do it AFTER the election with ZERO consultation with the voting public.
They're basically asking you to vote for, and approve of, blatant patronage.
Anyone voting for this has SQUAT to say about patronage at all after that point.
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
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COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.