Citizen's assembly

Reading an article in the Star today, I feel compelled to answer to it. The basic premise is that the author of the article seems to find fault with Ontario letting some of its citizens draft a proposal for electoral reform. To me, this view seems wrong.

Now, from what I gather, the basic premise of the article is PR is bad, and therefore we should not even bother spending any time to consider anything to do with it. I know Greg would find an incredibly large amount of wrong with that statement, and I think the main premise that Mr. Gwyn goes on is faulty.

Now, this isn't a post in support or opposition of any form of PR, but in the need to discuss the issue. And I do firmly believe that we need to discuss the issue. Even if the main conclusions to be drawn from this would be that our current system was the best that we could ever get, it's worth talking about it. You may not like what the assembly put forth, but that shouldn't take away from the fact that they are actually looking at issues and debating on the merits of it.

He does bring some good points that we need to reform maybe not the electoral system itself, but the culture of parliamentarians. Seriously, that deserves a look as well. The whole citizen's assembly may have wasted time and money and we may end up with nothing at the end, but for me, it's a small price to pay on the chance that we could have gotten a serious re-vamp of how elections work, and the chance at something more than we have now.