ELECTORAL REFORMS
—» EARL GREY'S EVIDENCE. Press Association—Ey Teie?raph—Copyright, LONDON, July 16. Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, testified before the Commission of Electoral Reform, that under the present system there is no security against the evil of a minority getting a majority representation. Moreover, it gives excessive power to cranks and faddists. If Mr Asnuith was really introducing a bill based upon a single transferable vote he would lie, templed to resign the. GovernorOonerakhip of Canada and return to England to support him. He added tint proportionate representation is required by the principle of democracy neeesgitatino government of the people by the people for the people. The present system is government of the people by caucus. As a democrat, ho believed in one man one vote, and every vote of equal value.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 5
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131ELECTORAL REFORMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 5
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