The Inhumanity of MMP

[Marcus Brubaker]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> 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).
>>     
>
> So, if a party-favourite candidate is rejected by his own community, he
> should be offered a consolation-prize seat in the legislature anyway?
> This strikes me as a bug rather than a feature -- not to mention the
> possibility that big chunks of the Cabinet (or all of it) could be list
> candidates with no direct public accountability. No thanks.
>   

Like I've said elsewhere, MMP isn't perfect.  This is one of those 
imperfections.  However, to prevent people from both being on the list 
and running in a local riding would discourage smaller parties from 
running local candidates at all which seems to me to be a bad thing.

However allowing them to both be on the list and run in a riding is 
better than the proposal I was replying to which you edited out.  
Namely, it's better (in my opinion) than choosing the list seats from 
local candidates that have lost.

Marcus
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