Give PR a chance

The most important thing about voting for or against proportional representation is written on page eight of the B.C. Voter’s Guide for the 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform.

The guide details possible options for possible PR systems for B.C. Election packages for each voter though should arrive no later than Nov. 4.

If you don’t have a guide yet, find a Service BC Centre or call Elections BC at 1-800-661-8683.

Like anything new, it takes a little work to understand how the options for proportional representation work.

Take the time.

Study them.

Decide what you think. Then vote.

As voters, that’s our job. But, the last bullet on page eight of the guide reads: “... another referendum will be held after two general elections to see if B.C. wants to keep the new voting system or go back to using First Past the Post.”

All over the world there seems to be a fast-moving push toward splitting people into good and bad, right and wrong, right and left, liberalism and populism and even worse.

Whoever gets to decide what proportional representation could look like in B.C. and whatever form it takes, we, the citizens of B.C., get to judge the outcome and turf it if we think it doesn’t work. PR only becomes permanent if we think it works for us.

Let’s give this effort a two government chance to prove itself worthy or not. That’s democracy. Jan Manning Prince George