Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca proposes ranked ballots, 4-day work week in address
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Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca announced that if elected to provincial government, the party will introduce ranked ballots and consider the possibility of a four-day work week.
Speaking at the party's annual general meeting in North York on Sunday, Del Duca presented the policy options as an introduction to the Ontario Liberals' upcoming platform for the provincial election, slated for June 2, 2022.
In addition to ranked ballots and a four-day work week consideration, Del Duca announced he would bring back the basic income pilot project that the current Progressive Conservative government cancelled.
On ranked ballots, Del Duca added he'd also reinstate the option for municipal elections.
"If I don't deliver on this in my first term, I'll resign on the spot," he said, referencing concerns of electoral reform promises made by political parties in past elections.
In a ranked ballot system, voters use their ballot to select more than one candidate and rank the choices in sequence. Currently in Ontario, voters elect their representatives using the first-past-the-post system, which means voters cast their ballot for the candidate of their choice, and whoever gets the most votes wins, even if they win less than 50 per cent of the total vote.
"It means parties and leaders will have to compete for second choices as well as their first, so it won't make sense for leaders and parties to demonize each other," Del Duca said.
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