Comments on: Wajid and Steve http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/ Current political events, business, real estate, financial and economic news, trends and, above all, the Future. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sean P. Hogan http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/comment-page-2/#comment-51981 Sean P. Hogan Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:12:04 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/#comment-51981 I did spit it out, but as usual you don't listen. I did spit it out, but as usual you don’t listen.

]]> By: Sean P. Hogan http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/comment-page-2/#comment-51976 Sean P. Hogan Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:51:41 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/#comment-51976 Its funny, laughable and sometimes ridiculous what comes out of this blog. Garth claimed he is a Chrstian and yet if and I say again, if a government prides itself on following Christian values, Garth is up in arms about it. Yes folks, another Garth conumdrum. <em>Spit it out: What's your problem? -- Garth</em> Its funny, laughable and sometimes ridiculous what comes out of this blog. Garth claimed he is a Chrstian and yet if and I say again, if a government prides itself on following Christian values, Garth is up in arms about it. Yes folks, another Garth conumdrum.

Spit it out: What’s your problem? — Garth

]]> By: John N http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/comment-page-2/#comment-51873 John N Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:04:28 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2007/01/05/wajid/#comment-51873 An interesting move. I feel Dion did put Khan into a 'you must leave now' situation and Khan would've looked best going independent but felt he might as well go all the way over at this stage (with an election coming quick). How best to deal with defections? I say adjust the system in a fairly simple way. Each election give us a double vote, one for your local rep and one for the party you support. Then the HOC votes will be held by the MP voting once, and the leaders of each party designating the party votes. ie: if the conservatives hold 33% of the seats and get 40% of the party vote then Harper gets to declare where 123 'non-MP' votes go (40% of the 308 potential). That way people won't have as much reason to complain if their MP defects, the cost for the HOC does not increase (ie: we don't get a ton more MP's to provide proportional rep), and now we can vote for the party we believe in and the local rep we think can win (ie: strategic voting cuts back). Give 'party votes' to all parties that get 1/308th of the national vote (48,200 votes last time) - the parties getting to be in the HOC then would include (other than the obvious) the Green Party (15 votes would've been placed there) and no one else. The Christian Heritage Party would've had a shot (28k votes, probably more if supporters thought their vote mattered) but no others were even 1/2 way there. Nice, simple way to make it work. An interesting move. I feel Dion did put Khan into a ‘you must leave now’ situation and Khan would’ve looked best going independent but felt he might as well go all the way over at this stage (with an election coming quick).

How best to deal with defections? I say adjust the system in a fairly simple way. Each election give us a double vote, one for your local rep and one for the party you support. Then the HOC votes will be held by the MP voting once, and the leaders of each party designating the party votes. ie: if the conservatives hold 33% of the seats and get 40% of the party vote then Harper gets to declare where 123 ‘non-MP’ votes go (40% of the 308 potential). That way people won’t have as much reason to complain if their MP defects, the cost for the HOC does not increase (ie: we don’t get a ton more MP’s to provide proportional rep), and now we can vote for the party we believe in and the local rep we think can win (ie: strategic voting cuts back). Give ‘party votes’ to all parties that get 1/308th of the national vote (48,200 votes last time) – the parties getting to be in the HOC then would include (other than the obvious) the Green Party (15 votes would’ve been placed there) and no one else. The Christian Heritage Party would’ve had a shot (28k votes, probably more if supporters thought their vote mattered) but no others were even 1/2 way there.

Nice, simple way to make it work.

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