The following letter was sent to member of Parliament John Weston and copied to Coast Reporter for publication.
Dear Mr. Weston:
Conservative Minister Stephen Fletcher, when speaking about the government's proposal to increase the number of seats in the House of Commons to reflect the growing populations of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, declared that the Harper government "deeply believes that each vote in Canadian elections should carry equal weight to the greatest extent possible."
In the last election, 937,000 Greens elected no one, while 822,000 Conservatives in Alberta elected 27 MPs. Can we assume that the Conser-vative government will soon introduce a bill for proportional representation to deal with this inequity?
Dave Barratt
Gibsons
