As an alum of UBC law I am heartened that the B.C. electorate didn’t buy into the snake-oil that was being sold under the guise of “democratic reform”.

The “new deal” would have, most likely, guaranteed four elected members from Kamloops, for example, and would most likely sound the death knell for small rural areas. Now, perhaps those representatives would be from two or three different parties – but, as we know, party nominees are determined based upon majority vote – and, well, tell me where the majority of the votes are going to come from in a contest between a candidate from Salmon Ar and a candidate from Kamloops.

STV was a recipe for urban domination at the expense of rural representation.