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Originally Posted by FireFly
[URL]Has the government made a lot of effort to educate the public, or are they doing what happened in BC and scaring the voters away from an MMP system?
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To answer the bolded part, no. Not at all. In fact, it's the exact opposite- both the Liberals and the Tories want nothing to do with rep. by pop., as it would cut into the number if seats held by their party's MPs. They're more than happy with the status quo. Which, of course, involves one of those two parties being first-past-the-post with less than half the popular vote, with less than half of the public even bothering to come out and vote.
Of course the Greens and NDP supporters are in favor of it, but without the clout and $$$, their voice is not being heard. People (not just in Ontario either) seem to have grown so cynical and disinterested with the voting process that many voters won't even bother voting in this referendum in the first place. Which is too bad.
But back to the publicity it's getting- even in a neglected Northern ON city like Sudbury, where this kind of system could have a significant impact, the only press it gets in the local paper is in the "letters to the editor" section, with the occasional article from another local paper thrown in there in the "around the province" section. And that is about every 2 weeks.
I don't think it will pass, and that's a damn shame.