Starting small with electoral reform

I saw a TED talk by Paul Romer last night. In it, he suggested that policy changes need a solid example that people can look to and that these examples are best served in the context of city-sized environments. Watching this talk, I couldn’t help but think about election reform and BC-STV. Perhaps one of the reasons it failed was that people didn’t have a proven local example.

Given that Vancouver and Victoria had the highest concentration of support for electoral reform, maybe the best place to start is at the municipal level in regions of strong support. If we can get things going in a couple of large cities, it might prove a strong example for the rest of the province.