jdobbin Posted March 23, 2007 Report Posted March 23, 2007 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070322/...democratic_flap A right-wing, libertarian think-tank with a long record of opposing electoral reform has been awarded a contract by the federal Conservative government to probe public perceptions of . . . electoral reform.Opposition politicians are livid that the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy will write the consultation report, based on discussions with what is supposed to be a representative sample of Canadian. What a waste of money. The Conservatives are trying to get support for Senate reform and then contract out to a group that doesn't believe in it? Quote
Saturn Posted March 23, 2007 Report Posted March 23, 2007 Apparently, Harper once described the problem quite correctly: Prime Minister Stephen Harper once co-authored a paper called "Our Benign Dictatorship" that sang the praises of proportional representation as a voting system but noted that it's "seldom in the short-term interest of the party in power to carry out electoral reform." He is now the party in power and it's clearly against his interests to carry out electoral reform. Quote
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