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Canada to look at replacing first-past-the-post election system

Published 2016-05-11, 11:49 a/m
© Reuters. Canada to look at replacing first-past-the-post election system

OTTAWA, May 11 (Reuters) - Canada will set up an all-party
committee to study alternatives to the country's
first-past-the-post voting system, the ruling Liberals said on
Wednesday, a move that could drastically reshape the way its
governments are elected and formed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who won power last year, had
pledged that 2015 would be the last election in Canada to use
the electoral system it inherited from Britain.
Advocates of reform note the current system allows a party
to win a majority government with less than 40 percent of the
popular vote.
Many European countries, including Germany, use alternatives
like proportional representation, which can help spur the
creation of multi-party coalitions.
The proposed Canadian committee will study different voting
systems, such as preferential ballots and proportional
representation, and also the possibility of mandatory and online
voting.
"Our country is better when governments work for all
Canadians," Maryam Monsef, the Liberals' minister of democratic
institutions, said on Wednesday. "We deserve broad,
representative politics, a stable government and an opportunity
to shape our democracy."
The committee would be made up of 10 members drawn from the
three major parties - the Liberals, Conservatives and New
Democrats - as well as one non-voter each from the smaller Green
Party and Bloc Quebecois. The committee would report its
findings and recommendations to parliament by the beginning of
December.

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