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- Michael Ufford, Chair
- Doug Lowry, Vice Chair
- Christopher Twardawa, CFO
- Edelgard Mahant, Membership Co-Director
- Aaron Ginsberg, Membership Co-Director
- Joseph Angolano, Media Director
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- Marie Heron, Vounteers Director
- Sylvie Arend, Director
- David Fleet, Director
- Graham Sproule, Ottawa Regional Director
- Martin Laplante, Ottawa Regional Director
- Luke Field, Kingston Regional Director
Here is a list of prominent Ontarians who will vote to keep our current electoral system in the upcoming referendum.
- David Peterson, former Liberal Premier of Ontario, 1987-1990
- Ernie Eves, former PC Premier of Ontario, 2002-2003
- Sheila Copps, former deputy Prime Minister, former Liberal MP for Hamilton East, Women and Minority Rights advocate, Sun Media Columnist
- John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
- John Baird, Minister of the Environment, Conservative MP for Ottawa West-Nepean
- Diane Marleau, former Minister of Health, Public Works, International Cooperation, minister responsible for the Francophonie, Liberal MP for Sudbury
- Greg Sorbara, Minister of Finance, Liberal MPP for VaughanKingAurora
- Dwight Duncan, Minister of Energy, Liberal MPP for Windsor-Tecumseh
- Steve Peters, Minister of Labour, Liberal MPP for ElginMiddlesexLondon
- Jim Watson, Minister of Health Promotion, Liberal MMP for Ottawa West-Nepean
- Charles Harnick, former Attorney General and Minister responsible for Native Affairs, former PC MPP for Willowdale
- John Snobelen, former Minister of Education, former Minister of Natural Resources, former PC MPP for Mississauga West
- Norm Sterling, former Attorney General and Minister for Transport, PC MPP for Lanark-Carleton
- Frank Klees, former Minister of Transportation, PC MPP for Oak Ridges (candidate for Newmarket-Aurora)
- Bob Delaney, Liberal MPP for Mississauga West (changed to Mississauga-Streetsville)
- Lisa MacLeod, PC MPP for Nepean-Carleton
- Carol Mitchell, Liberal MPP for Huron-Bruce
- Tim Hudak, PC MPP for Niagara West-Glanbrook
- Toby Barrett, PC MPP for HaldimandNorfolkBrant
- Scott Reid, Conservative MP for Lanark-Carleton
- Ray Bonin, Liberal MP, Nickel Belt
- Pierre Poilievre, Conservative MP for Nepean-Carleton
- Derek Lee, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Rouge River
- David Collenette, former Minister of Transport, Defence, Multiculuralism, former Liberal MP for York East and Don Valley East
- Charles Caccia, former Minister of the Environment, Labour, former Liberal MP for Davenport
- Senator David Smith, former Minister of State for Small Businesses and Tourism, former Liberal MP for Don Valley East
- Dennis Timbrell, former minister for Energy, Health, and Agriculture, former PC MPP for Don Mills
- George W. Taylor, former Solicitor General, former PC MPP for Simcoe Centre
- Bernard C. Grandmaitre, former Minister of Revenue, Municipal Affairs, Francophone Affairs, former Liberal MPP for Ottawa East
- Gordon Walker, former Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, former PC MPP for London South
- Dennis Mills, former Liberal MP for Toronto-Danforth
- Ron Atkey, former Minister for Employment and Immigration, former PC MP for St. Pauls.
- Doug Lewis, former Minister of Transport, former PC MP for Simcoe North
- Senator Lowell Murray, former Leader of the Government in the Senate
- Doug Frith, Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, former Liberal MP for Sudbury
- Larry McCormick, former Liberal MP, HastingsFrontenacLennox and Addington
- Mike Crawley, President, Liberal Party of Canada, (Ontario wing)
- Jim Breithaupt, former Liberal MPP for Kitchener
- David Fleet, former Liberal MPP for High Park-Swansea
- John L. Parker, former PC MPP for York West, current Toronto city councillor, Ward 26
- Claudette Boyer, former Liberal MPP for Ottawa Vanier
- Ron Kanter, former Liberal MMP for St. Andrew-St. Patrick
- Allan Cutler, former federal Conservative candidate, Ottawa South
- Sam Wakim, former federal PC MP, Don Valley East
- Joe Hueglin, former PC MP, Niagara Falls
- Aideen Nicholson, former Liberal MP, Trinity
- Jacquelin Holzman, former Mayor of Ottawa
- Tara Crugnale, PC candidate, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
- Rob Morley, PC Candidate, Huron-Bruce
- Brent Cameron, Conservative, Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington
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QUESTION The Yes Side is saying that MMP will get rid of tactical voting. Is it possible for electoral reform to stop citizens from voting strategically? ANSWER Absolutely not. No electoral system can eliminate tactical voting. To suggest otherwise is completely erroneous. Tactical voting is when a voter supports Party or Candidate A, but instead votes for Party B to stop Party C from winning. This happens all the time in FPTP, but it can still happen in the 90 seats that will still be contested in the same way as we have in our current electoral system. It is also possible to vote tactically for the party lists. Remember that the ratio between constituency seats and list seats is about 70% / 30% under this proposed MMP system. This means that the larger parties that pick up more seats than their vote proportion at the constituency level will usually not be entitled to any list seats. This means that smaller parties are more likely to get these lists seats. This gives voters, especially those who support large parties, a strategic incentive to vote for a small party that could be a potential coalition partner with the large party they might support. This happens in Germany all the time. Supporters of the conservative Christian Democratic Union often vote for smaller like-minded parties so that they get list seats, since they realize that voting for the CDU list will work to elect small parties that would not be interested in forming a coalition with them. This is an example of tactical voting. Some Germans support the CDU but vote for small conservative parties to stop other small parties from winning seats. MMP does nothing to get rid of tactical voting.
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