Nose Off
On Saturday Vancouverites rejected moving the city’s electoral system to a ward based system. Good.
I could write a big long article as to why…but basically I didn’t want to turn our city into even more fractured constituencies. Let’s think about one big picture.
“Toronto, Montreal and every other major city in Canada has the ward system — considered to offer the most direct form of representation — with councillors responsible to voters in their neighbourhoods.
However, Vancouver voted No to wards, reaffirming support for citywide elections. The system, supporters say, encourages councillors to take broader perspectives on issues.”