The irony between these two parts of the article screams for comment:

1. Our current "first-past-the-post" method ... awards ridings to the
candidate who wins the most votes.
2. Voters in British Columbia ... have already rejected proportional
representation.

Voters in British Columbia DID NOT reject PR; the BC government did.
Fifty-eight percent of British Columbians voted in favour of BC-STV. In a
FPTP system, BC-STV would have won. Instead, our government (like Ontario's
government) imposed a 60% supermajority threshold. That resulted in the
choice of 42% of voters outweighing the choice of the majority.

Ocean

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