New system needed

Dear Editor

Re: Don’t scrap FPTP just yet, Opinion, The Record, Oct. 29.

Every time electoral reform comes up, single transferable voting comes into the conversation telling how some provinces have voted on it, always implying, if not saying directly, that this is a proportional representation system, which it is not. The only fair and properly democratic system is proportional representation as is done in Scandinavia where 10 per cent of the vote for any party gets 10 per cent of the seats. It needs to be remembered that everyone votes, not for their riding representative, but for a political party. It is also true a referendum is not needed to make a change to the voting system.

A real proportional representation system would put the elected official in a position of a need to cooperate. Imagine that.

Terry Smith, by email