proportional representation

A message to the BC legislature: shut up and give me proportional representation

By: Yagya Parihar, SFU Student After an excruciatingly long period of counting and recounting ballots, we now know that the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) will form a slim majority government. While this is a relief considering the extreme stances of the BC Conservatives, it’s also frustrating to see just how close this election was. The disparities between the two major parties could not be more clear.  One party has a track record known to voters and has campaigned on principles of basic human decency, while the other is filled with people with all sorts of fringe, bigoted beliefs, and…

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