How Can We Change Canada's Voting System

A highlight of this course for me personally was when I reflected on Canada’s voting system. The Canadians voting system is extremely important, as it determines who wins the election. The Canadian voting system is important for everyone living in Canada. This is because the federal winner of the election, will represent Canada as a whole. To be more precise, the Canadian voting system, is more important for the Canadians whom are eligible to vote. This is because, those individuals have the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. However, not everyone in Canada votes. Some do not vote because they do not have time, they do not like any of the candidates, or because they simply do not care about the elections. Others do not vote because they do not find the Canadian voting system to be fair, and this …show more content…
Majority of the people that would support this idea, are Canadians that are eligible to vote and the Canadians that do not like the current voting system. Firstly, we can start a petition to get as many signatures from Canadians, that support the idea of changing the First Past the Post voting system. We should get signatures from different Canadian cities, to see what people in different areas think about the current voting system. Each city that does this petition, can hand the signature sheet to their municipal government. The municipal government can then give these sheets to the provincial government. The provincial government can collect all the petition sheets, that were collected in that province. All the provincial government can then meet up with the federal government to discuss this idea. The petition will show the governments that there are many Canadians citizens that want the voting system to be changed. The federal government will get to make the concluding decision, as the federal government is responsible for solving issues related to the whole