The Canadian Press: The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system.
The system, set out in the Canada Elections Act, sees the candidate who receives the most votes in a given riding become the member of Parliament.
Fair Voting B.C. and the Springtide Collective for Democratic Society argued in court that the first-past-the-post system violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee of effective representation…