The Greens commanded 6.5 per cent of the 2019 popular vote, which should have translated to 20 seats in Parliament
David Beatty is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
The way we elect members to Parliament and provincial legislatures systematically dilutes the voting power of people who supportUnder our election laws, every elected member represents a geographic constituency whose seat in Parliament is awarded to the candidate who secures the most votes. Hundreds of thousands of Green supporters have no member of Parliament to represent them. It’s as if a whole city the size of Halifax or Victoria was disenfranchised.of Canadian voters, it didn’t elect an MP until 2011., even though the popular vote, of which the Greens commanded 6.5 per cent, demonstrated they should have been awarded at least 20 of Parliament’s 338 seats.
To compound the unfairness, in the same election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were awarded almost 50 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons, even though they received just over 30 per cent of the popular vote.promised to change the system
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