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Ken Burch
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January 31, 2009 - 5:05am
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Some people cite Tommy Douglas'repeated provincial victories, in which

the CCF won parliamentary majorities without winning a majority of the popular vote, as an argument for opposing STV or any other pr proposal. 

Is that necessarily still a valid argument?

And is what happened in Saskatchewan sixty years ago worth passing up a chance to create a system in which, in all liklhood, there would never again be an all-out federal right wing government in Canada?

 

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