Fixing Canada’s Electoral System: Four Fallacies
Posted by admin on 16 Sep 2012 at 03:25 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Metta Spencer, President, Science for Peace and Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, organizes a free lecture series every year, called Vital Discussions of Human Security. This year, I’m one of the speakers. Here are the details.
Topic – Fixing Canada’s Electoral System: Four Fallacies
Date & Time – Thursday, September 20, 7-9pm
Location – University College, University of Toronto, 15 King’s College Circle, Room 052 (east end of building, basement)
Topics I’ll explore include:
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– how our current majority government gained power,
– options and implications for electoral reform,
– political parties, and
– grass-roots efforts.
Two hours means plenty of time for discussion – please join us.
For details on the full lecture series, which runs from September 13 through April 4, 2013, please click here.
The series is co-sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Voice of Women for Peace, and Science for Peace. The lectures are all free of charge, and promise much food for thought.
There was good material in your video, and it echoed much of I’ve been thinking and writing about and learning from FairVote Canada.
However, I am unlikley to quote, distill, remix or share any of it, particularly in light of the “modernization” of Canadian Copyright law (recently undemocratically pushed through by our current government in spite of strong opposition). Having researched and written about copyright law, I know enough to be unwilling to risk infringing it.
If, as I suspect, the intention is to spread your message as widely as possible, to facilitate sharing I suggest adoption of the most liberal Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License, instead of locking it up with © Copyright.
Thanks very much for your comment. Yes, you are correct, my intention is to spread my message as widely as possible. Your link is clear, and I’ll discuss it with David, who made the video – won’t be the first time I’ve benefited from his expertise.