OTTAWA — The Ontario Court of Appeal has affirmed the constitutionality of Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system.
The system, laid out in the Canada Elections Act, sees the candidate who receives the most votes in a given riding or electoral district become the member of Parliament.
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Fair Voting BC and the Springtide Collective for Democratic Society argued the first-past-the-post voting system violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee of effective representation.
The groups also said the syst