Vaughn Palmer: NDP pushes electoral reform, but keeping an 'open' mind

VICTORIA — In preparing for public consultations on the coming referendum on electoral reform, the NDP government recently recruited a panel of academic advisers who were mostly critical of the status quo.
One of the four was Max Cameron, director of the centre for democratic institutions at the University of B.C., who is on record as believing the current system is in need of reform.
“It tends to create false majority government,” declared Cameron on the eve of a UBC-host