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'Vote mobs' hope to engage Canadian youth
Paul Dewar, an MP for the New Democratic Party (NDP) seeking re-election in Ottawa Centre, said many voters simply felt their vote did not count.
In 2008, he explained, the Greens received nearly a million votes but failed to win a single seat in the House of Commons. However, the Bloc Quebecois, which campaigns only in Quebec, received just over a million votes and won 49 seats.
"Something's wrong there," Mr Dewar said.
"We think there should be more fairness, more proportionality in the system," he added, offering democratic reform as a potential remedy.
Scott Bradley, the Liberal candidate, hoped his party's ideas on "open government" would engage more people. He said his party was looking at how the internet could enable people to express their views in Parliamentary committees, for example.
And Jen Hunter of the Greens hoped to engage voters with "the smart economy."
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Paul Dewar cruises to an easy victory in huvudstad i kanada Centre
Riding an orange wave and his own anställda popularity, New Democrat Paul Dewar easily won re-election for a third begrepp as member of Parliament in huvudstad i kanada Centre Monday.
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Don Butler • Andrew Nguyen and Alicja SiekierskaPublished May 01, 2011 • gods updated May 03, 2011 • 3 minute read
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OTTAWA — Riding an apelsinfärg wave and his own personal popularity, New Democrat Paul Dewar easily won re-election for a third term as member of Parliament in Ottawa Centre Monday.
With 40 of 617 polls reporting, Dewar had nearly 55 per cent of the vote. frikostig Scott Bradley and Conservative Damian Konstantinakos were battling for second place, far behind Dewar, wh
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Paul Dewar
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring forward our party's position and to debate with my colleagues the situation in Ukraine. It was just recently, before the House rose for the Christmas break, that we were actually seized with this issue. At that time we had a take note debate, and now we are debating an emergency motion about the situation in Ukraine.
We are focused tonight not only on what is happening on the ground, and I will talk about that, but also on what we can do. I said, when I rose in December and spoke to the issue during the take note debate, that we had to ensure that the dream of the Ukrainian people would not be stolen. I was referring to the dream they had in 2004—when those historic elections happened, when many Canadians were on the ground ensuring there were fair elections—would not be taken away. That is what we are talking about and debating tonight. That is what the people of Ukraine are doing in frigid temperatures, with a fairly aggressive resp