The Inhumanity of MMP

[Marcus Brubaker]

Mike Kallies wrote:
>> I understand the calls for fairness, I get the point proponents are
>> making, and I do see some benefit of cold logic in the proposal.
>> However, IMO what we lose from MMP is far more than what we gain. There
>> are many other reasons to oppose MMP, but this is certainly a big one to me.
>>     
>
> There's one thing which keeps this in check.  Just barely.
>
> It is in the party's best interest to appear to follow a democratic
> process, else nobody will vote for them with that second vote.
>
> If this passes, I might just become a card carrying Liberal.... PC,
> NDP, and Green.  That way I can have some say as to who is appointed
> and as to whether or not the parties degrade into the state you
> describe.
>
> Personally I would rather see the candidates for the MMP placements
> selected from the unsuccessful canidates with the highest number of
> votes of all the party's ridings.  That way, the MMP candidate is not
> selected by the party, but is selected by the people, but they're
> answerable to the members of their constituency...
>   

Well, that has one flaw, which is that it makes it fairly difficult for 
a riding to vote out a local representative.  However, the way the 
proposal is right now, list members can also be running in local 
ridings.  This allows parties to, for instance, put their leaders on the 
top of the lists to ensure that they get into parliament even if they 
loose their local riding (like John Tory seems set to do tomorrow).

Marcus
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