VANCOUVER — Green Leader Elizabeth May said in a release Sunday that if her party is elected Monday, it will be the last federal government in Canada chosen by the first-past-the-post system. May said a Green government would launch a citizens’ assembly with a mandate to make recommendations to Parliament on a new electoral system based on proportional representation. “Canada is among the very last free and prosperous countries in the world still using the outdated first-past-the-post voting system,” May said in the statement. The Liberals included electoral reform as part of their platform for the 2015 election but dropped the idea once they were in power. However, Page said in the release that the Green platform received an overall passing grade on a fiscal assessment from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy, which he leads, at the University of Ottawa.

Source: National Post October 20, 2019 17:15 UTC