Wilf Day sums it up perfectly: Ontario’s surprise majority government looks dominated by the GTA. Two-thirds of Liberal MPPs are from the GTA, 38 of 58. Yet 56% of Ontario’s votes cast Thursday were outside the GTA. But to elect a Liberal MPP in the GTA took only 25,689 votes, while it took 44,332 outside the GTA. That’s because our winner-take-all system silences most voters outside their party’s strongholds, leaving unrepresented in the government caucus and cabinet many invisible Liberal voters outside the GTA. Like all those Alberta Liberals whose votes don’t count in Ottawa.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:46:53 +0000