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Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a Kitchener, Ontario-based grassroots, nonprofit, multi-partisan citizens' movement—created in June 2001—that calls for the replacement of the first-past-the-post electoral system with proportional representation, as part of electoral reform in Canada. [14] [15] Friends of Canadian Broadcasting political
Its aim is "to gain broad, multi-partisan support for an independent, citizen-driven process to allow Canadians to choose a fair voting system based on the principles that all voters are equal, and that every vote must count." Fair Vote Canada does not advocate for any particular form of proportional representation but has been involved in the ...
Roughly 2 in 10 voters said the top issue is immigration, and about 1 in 10 picked abortion. But when asked what most influenced their vote, about half of voters identified the future of democracy as the single most important factor. That was higher than the share who answered the same way about inflation, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico ...
Those Democrats are out of step. As even Vox admitted last fall, immigration became one of voters’ most critical issues during the campaign. Republicans and a record-high number of independents ...
When they realized that 83% of the new arrivals were immigrants, they changed the name of their group from the Lower Mainland Sustainable Population Group to Immigration Watch Canada. Murray blamed the increase on immigration policies introduced by Barbara McDougall in 1990 to get more votes for the Conservative Party. He claimed that Liberals ...
As both presidential candidates begin to focus on their policy agendas, immigration continues to be one of the biggest issues in the election. Former President Donald Trump's platform has long ...
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Responding to the anti-immigration sentiment in British Columbia, the Canadian government of John A. Macdonald introduced the Chinese Immigration Act, receiving Royal Assent and becoming law in 1885. [6] Under its regulations, the law stipulated that all Chinese people entering Canada must first pay a CA$50 fee, [7] [8] later referred to as a ...