Dear Party Leaders,
Thank you for helping us make up our minds on which party to vote for in the coming elections!
For the sake of long term democracy, you should be putting Canadians in front of your party politics and bring in electoral reform as a priority so that no votes are worthless. The present system is so flawed that it leaves millions of people with either their votes trashed or so disenfranchised that they have resigned themselves to watching in disgust at the circus dog fight.
The Green Party understands what democracy is as they have electoral reform as one of their main platforms. I don't see any of you fighting for our rights to have each vote count. You have collectively refused to have the Green party leader join the debates. What are you afraid of? So what if every little party has its say? Is that not democracy? Democracy is intimately connected with public discussion and interactive reasoning, writes Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.
When will you understand this?
Without electoral reform, the Canada you want will never be the Canada we want. This last piece of evidence shows that, unfortunately, you still have a long way to go to attain the credibility that begets respect and trust.
Esther Matharu
Women's Alliance Party
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