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Fair Vote Canada was created in June 2001, following a founding conference in Ottawa. It is a membership organization headed by a national council of 15 members and has chapters and action teams across the country.
The Fair Elections Act (French: Loi sur l’intégrité des élections) was a statute enacted by the Conservative government in the 41st Canadian Parliament.It was introduced on February 4, 2014, by Minister of Democratic Reform Pierre Poilievre, was sent to the Senate with amendments on May 12, 2014, and received Royal Assent on June 19, 2014.
Historically, all electoral systems used in Canada have allowed voter to cast a vote (or votes) for a candidate (or candidates). Casting a vote for a party list has never been done in Canada. [11] There are several electoral reform advocacy groups. Fair Vote Canada is a large non
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The proposed system received critical support from Fair Vote Canada, which organized the Vote for MMP campaign, [18] a multi-partisan citizen-based campaign. Vote for MMP had received a long list of public endorsements [19] from all parts of the political spectrum. In addition, over 140 professors of law and politics have endorsed MMP.
Canada's first recorded election was held in Halifax in 1758 to elect the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia. [1] All Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who currently reside in Canada as of the polling day [2] (or at any point in their life have resided in Canada, regardless of time away) may vote in federal elections. [3]
Canada's electoral system is a "first-past-the-post" system, which is formally referred to as a single-member plurality system.The candidate who receives the most votes in a riding, even if not a majority of the votes, wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its member of Parliament (MP).
In support of the STV proposal was a group called YES-STV led organizationally by a local advocacy group called Fair Voting BC. It included members of the former Citizen's Assembly, activists from Fair Vote Canada and a number of academics and celebrity supporters.