{"id":230,"date":"2006-11-15T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T20:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T17:57:49","slug":"hurray-for-garth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Hurray for Garth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\">Garth Turner<\/a>, former Conservative MP had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garth.ca\/weblog\/2006\/11\/14\/not-above-the-people\/\" target=\"_top\">press release today<\/a> to talk about some issues that arose after becoming an independent, and the conflicts between his local riding association and Conservative central. I agree with a lot of what he says, and I think it highlights the need to include the ability to elect independents in any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensassembly.gov.on.ca\/\">electoral reform<\/a> process we undertake. I truly do think we can do better than the current first-past-the-post system, but I really do fear that proportional representation with party lists will only give the parties more power to nominate drones rather than representatives. It might give us a parliament divided by parties closer to how we support them, but less of what we really want in the end: effective representation that is accountable to the electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Turner, former Conservative MP had a press release today to talk about some issues that arose after becoming an independent, and the conflicts between his local riding association and Conservative central. I agree with a lot of what he says, and I think it highlights the need to include the ability to elect independents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}