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Old 05-11-2011, 10:13 AM   #4902
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate View Post
That's pure BS. The commentary in 1997 was that this country was in dire, desperate need of proportional representation. Can you find me some Canadian leftist commentary AGAINST PR from 1997 or later? I can tell you that personally, I have been supporting PR from well before '97 and think that it stinks that ANYONE have a majority with 38% of the popular vote.
I'm cool with the 'Alternative Vote' but not PR. PR allows for too much instability, when at best the benefit to PR is to allow bats**t crazy minority parties a taxpayer sponsored platform to spew their idiocy, at worst you could have one-issue parties claiming the balance of power on key votes on issues that were outside of their platform.
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