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Monday, 25 April 2011
If EKOS is right and Harper's Trojan Horse new Tories are sharply reduced to around 130 (meaning bye-bye Harper), with Dipper Jack winning around 100 seats and the Liberals plus NDP around 30 plus more than the Tories, is this: that Dipper Jack hold out for electoral reform as part of his cooperation with any government.
If Jack has the upper hand (which he will have if Harper gets only 130 seats – NDP plus Tories would total 230 according to EKOS, still 26 shy of a majority, so Harper would need the separatist Bloc or the Liberals to also back his first budget), then I hope that Jack holds out for some major electoral reform of the House as the price for his cooperation.
My preference would be proportional representation, but something significant but less as a first step would also work for me for starters (such as the transferable vote similar to what the voters in the UK are going to vote on).
Of course, if Harper bombs with his first budget and Jack is tapped on the shoulder by the Governor General to try to form a government that has the confidence of the majority of our Members of Parliament, then Jack should still insist on electoral reform.
Maybe we are in for some true democratic reform, at last!
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