Winnable Ridings: Party Line and Vote Count

winnable ridings: A premise that is especially important and significant to minorities, whose votes are generally insignificant within their ridings under our current flawed first-past-the-post FPP system, according to Rabble. Under an FPP system, minority representation is at the mercy of parties' decisions to choose their candidates in winnable ridings from minority groups. When the Liberals, the NDP, the BQ and the Greens included electoral reform in their platforms for the 2015 federal election, it was with the premise to make every vote count. If and when this happens, and if they win, those MPs are usually indebted to the party and thus limited in the power they have or their ability to speak in defence of their community when it is in contradiction to the party line. The picture would be very different under a proportional representation PR electoral system where the collective voices of minorities across the country are given real weight. Thus, such MPs from minority groups are more loyal to the party than to their community; the presence of minorities in the Parliament or government is more superficial than real. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.