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Democracy prevails when PR fails

The 2017 election results: sa国际传媒 Liberals 796,672 (40.36 per cent), NDP 795,106 (40.28 per cent) Green Party 332,387 (16.

The 2017 election results: sa国际传媒 Liberals 796,672 (40.36 per cent), NDP 795,106 (40.28 per cent) Green Party 332,387 (16.84 per cent)

With 1,566 votes separating the Liberals and NDP, the Green Party fluked into becoming kingmaker in the 2017 election.

If PR had been successful, the Green Party would have locked in its grip on all future sa国际传媒 governments.

Providing a political party with 16.84 per cent of the vote that much power would not have been a victory for democracy, but rather a perversion of democracy.

Wayne Cox

Saanichton