Countries with PR electoral systems had average central government spending of 29.2 per cent (of GDP) compared to 23.5 per cent in majoritarian/plurality countries.
electoral reform
August 5, 2016
3:01AM
July 28, 2016
3:45PM
The federal government wants to reform Canada’s electoral system, with a committee now investigating options.
June 23, 2016
3:16PM
In the past decade, four provincial governments pushing for electoral reform put the question to the people.
December 11, 2015
10:23AM
The issue of whether the new federal government requires explicit approval of the electorate via a referendum to change the way parliamentarians and our federal government is elected is gaining a surprising amount of attention.
November 6, 2015
4:00AM
As one of his first policy proposals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to replace Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system with a system that “[better] reflects and represents” Canadians and makes “every vote count.”