Fair Vote Canada just announced that a motion for a Citizen’s Assembly on electoral reform will be voted on in Parliament.
You have to scroll down a bit to see the announcement, which then contains links to details.
In summary, Fair Vote has worked with a few MPs to create and submit a motion to get their asses in gear on electoral reform. This will be voted on in Parliament, so pester your MP and anyone else who can help. And, obviously, spread the word.
Wouldn’t you say that the real problem is that the entire system of government is designed around the concept of local representation, whereas the people actually want global representation?
We have come up with hacks like political parties to try and bolt global representation onto a system designed for local representation, but these are ultimately hacks. FPP is quite well suited to the original structure of the Westminster system, but is incompatible with the hacks we’ve introduced along the way. If we are adamant that we must keep this system of hacks, then adding more electoral reform hacks on top is a necessity to keep things functioning well.
But do we need hacks at all when we also have the ability to start from the ground up and establish government around global representation from the get-go?
I think you’re on the right track. We do want global governance in the form of large scale cultural, legal, medical, communications, transportation, and social systems. And probably others things. But we also want our personal and regional interests represented.