By Dylana Milobar

Fair Vote Kamloops hosting information sessions today

Oct 20, 2018 | 9:07 AM

KAMLOOPS— Fair Vote Kamloops will hosting public information sessions this afternoon, ahead of the Proportional Representation Referendum.

Mail-in ballots will be sent out Monday for B.C voters to give their input on whether they’d like to stick with the current First Past the Post system, or move to a Proportional Representation system.

Team Leader Gisela Ruckert says they’d like to put more information into people’s hands about what the systems actually are.

“These are half hour information sessions, and usually have a very lively question and answer period afterwards.” Ruckert says, “In our presentations, we usually cover the reason why we’re having this, why this keeps coming up in B.C, and why people keep advocating for electoral reform. Then we talk a little bit about what we can expect under each system.”

Ruckert says they compare First Past the Post with other countries who use Proportional Representation systems, and the environmental, economic, and socio-economic impacts.

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“Towards the end of the presentation, we’ll go into more detail on the system options that have been offered to us on this referendum ballot,” Ruckert says, “So the three choices that we can have in terms of proportional representation systems that have been designed for B.C.”

Ruckert says the sessions include, 

• Saturday, October 20 at 1 pm at the Free Methodist Centennial Chapel (975 Windbreak, next to Brock Middle School)
• Saturday, October 20 at 2 pm in the Clearwater Library (422 Murtle Crescent)
• Saturday, October 20 at 2 pm in the Merritt Library (1691 Garcia St.)
• Tuesday, October 23 at 7 pm at the Lecture Hall, Student Independent Centre, Thompson Rivers University (900 McGill Road)
• Saturday, November 3 at 1 pm at the Free Methodist Centennial Chapel (975 Windbreak, next to Brock Middle School)

Groups who would like to book a presentation for their members are asked to send requests to fairvotekamloops@gmail.com.

“We are advocating for reform, so we stick very closely to what the evidence shows. Its all peer-reviewed and published studies that we’re basing our information on,” Ruckert adds, “But we clearly have a stake in this, we’re hoping people will consider the change, yes.”