Dear editor,

I appreciated the Black Press editorial in last week鈥檚 Record.

Specifically, it pointed out that the changing of electoral area boundaries has the purpose of giving us more egalitarian representation. But more interestingly to me, it also said 鈥渢he distribution of seats in the BC Legislature do not necessarily represent the choices made by voters.鈥� For this, we need a different voting system.

Our BC NDP government made a half-hearted gesture towards changing our election system to proportional representation, in a referendum a few years ago. Now, the federal Liberal party is considering having a Citizens鈥� Assembly made up of a wide variety of ordinary citizens, to study the possibility that we could have a better, more fair system of voting.

Although change can be scary, I have cautious hope that this will actually happen.

Surely there is an appetite for voters to get the legislature and parliamentary representation that they actually vote for.

Wendy McNiven,

Courtenay