Over the last few months, I’ve spent quite a lot of time debating and following the No side in the electoral reform referendum. For the most part, they are waging a highly negative campaign based on fear-mongering about extremists and falsehoods about what might happen to local representation (which I have debunked here and here).
Read MoreAmong the fear-mongering claims of the ‘No’ side in BC’s electoral reform debate, a favorite trope is that proportional representation (pro rep) will result in unstable minority governments that can’t get anything done. The claim is unsubstantiated nonsense.
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