SoundBites: Catherine Fife ~ Minority vs Majority #WRally4PR
Channel: Laurel L. Russwurm
Date: 2017-02-24

Catherine Fife, the NDP MPP for Kitchener-Waterloo speaks about the difference between Minority Government and Majority Government from the inside at the Waterloo Region Rally For Proportional Representation on the National Day of Action For Electoral Reform, February 11th, 2017

Defenders of the status quo try to frighten us with the fact Proportional Representation tends to result in coalition governments, (when everyone is represented it is very rare for a single party to win 51% of the seats in Parliament).   But the reality is very different.  When 1 party has all the power they stop listening to citizens, and start telling us.   

Looking back we can see Universal Healthcare was the result of a minority government; the reality is that Canadians have been historically better served by minority governments.  It's the majorities that cause us problems.   With Proportional Representation, voters will be able to vote for what we want, which is the only way to get the government we want.

Sign the e-616 (Electoral system) Petition !!!
https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-616
(and get your friends and family to do too... no age or residence restriction but email confirmation is required)

Learn More about Proportional Representation;
Whoa!Canada Proportional Representation 4 Canada series
https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/pr-4-canada-resources/

Fair Vote Waterloo
http://www.fairvotewrc.ca/

Fair Vote Canada
http://www.fairvote.ca/

See the full #WRally4PR here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrWjxgmdK0

Catherine Fife http://catherinefife.com/
is the Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener—Waterloo http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_detail.do?locale=en&ID=7204

See the whole #WRally4PR video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrWjxgmdK0&list=PL66aOelRZ1qsEgqfd2BbE1CLL7EeDTCZ7&index=4&t=1261s

Music Credit:
"Nothing in the Dark" (instrumental version) from "heretoday" is copyright by Josh Woodward 
https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/NothingInTheDark
and released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Video by Laurel Russwurm/Libreleft Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/user/LaurelRusswurm/videos
is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/