This toolkit contains everything you need to take action in your community and pressure your MP to be a #DemocracyHero and vote to get electoral reform back on the table.  

The Liberals have announced that they will not be following through on their election promise to replace our broken first-past-the-post electoral system. But we aren't giving up. Read on for updates on how you can help #BringERBack.
 

Over the last few weeks, there has been another system floated by our friends at Fair Vote Canada in response to a similar suggestion by former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley. The model that Fair Vote is proposing is called ‘Rural-Urban Proportional’. This is how it works:

To prepare for our presentation to the voting reform committee on August 30th, we asked our community what they thought about online voting, mandatory voting and lowering the voting age. Here are the pros and cons of lowering the voting age that we provided in the survey.

To prepare for our presentation to the voting reform committee on August 30th, we asked our community what they thought about online voting, mandatory voting and lowering the voting age. Here are the pros and cons of online voting that we provided in the survey.

To prepare for our presentation to the voting reform committee on August 30th, we asked our community what they thought about online voting, mandatory voting and lowering the voting age. Here are the pros and cons of mandatory voting that we provided in the survey.

Over the next few months, MPs as well as a special all-party committee are consulting communities on voting reform. This resource breaks down everything you need to know to attend a local consultation.

Proportional representation (PR) is any voting system designed to produce a legislature in which each party’s proportion of seats closely reflects the proportion of the vote received by the party. But how do some of the specific PR systems actually work? 

We've already done an overview of the voting system we current use in Canda: first-past-the-post. This week we're covering another type of voting system known as Alternative Vote.

There's a lot of misinformation about proportional representation out there - we're here to help dispel some of those myths.