What do we want? EFFECTIVE VOTING... When do we want it? NOW.

Now in any FPTP election you can see:

-- 35 to 66 percent of the vote in each district ignored;

-- parties with 4 percent of the vote or more totally without representation;

-- any but the leading party being under-represented;

-- leading party with low majority of the votes (or sometimes even only a minority of the votes) taking a majority of the seats;

-- false feelings of regionalism created by the leading party in a region taking far more seats in the region than is due, while a different party leading elsewhere does the same to it in that place in return.

Attention must turn to the right to have EFFECTIVE VOTING, where a high proportion of voters see one of their choices elected.

EFFECTIVE VOTING is proportional representation.

Under PR a high proportion of votes are not wasted as they are under First past the post. Instead they are used to help elect someone, whether someone of their kind such as a woman being elected by women voters, or to help elect someone else whom they choose to elect, such as along party lines -- Conservative, Liberal, labourite, socialist, environmentalist, etc. of whatever gender.

Achieving proportional representation is the next task -- municipally, provincially and federally.