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BC Voters will decide the fate of SOGI & Electoral Reforms for proportional representation

10-03-2018

Who would’ve thought that local municipal elections could be as exciting as federal and provincial elections? However, this time they are. There is a real battle, especially when it comes to electing school board trustees right across British Columbia. Both sides, pro and anti SOGI123 have dug their trenches, have set up camps, and lines have been drawn.

BC Voters in local municipal elections will decide whether they wish to support the inclusion of SOGI123 in BC educational curriculum, or they wish to shut the door on this what parents call “an assault on common sense and traditional values.”

The second battle brewing is about the referendum question through mail-in-ballot about the electoral reform proposed by the provincial government. Just like SOGI 123, there are groups that are for and against the notion of electoral reforms.

Whether it is SOGI 123, or Electoral Reforms for proportional representation, it is absolutely imperative that BC Muslim Voters engage themselves in on both of these important electoral process and make themselves heard loud and clear.

Why is it important for all eligible Muslim voters to cast their votes on October 20th? Because every vote counts, and every vote matters, especially when crucial decision makers, will be elected who would decide what is taught to our children in our local public schools.

What is SOGI 123?
According to CultureGuard.com, “SOGI is simply a rebranding of LGBTQ2S++,” says social activist Kari Simpson, Executive Director for CultureGuard. “It’s a political cult, expanding globally—and according to the School Act, which prohibits sectarian influence in the classroom, that’s illegal.”

“SOGI lesson plans incorporate well-known brainwashing techniques, designed to create confusion in children, and to exploit their vulnerability. Starting in kindergarten, little 4- and 5-year-olds have their sense of reality undermined. All children have a mom and a dad—that’s a biological reality—but SOGI perverts these facts. SOGI abuses children with delusion, confusion and emotion to promote a political agenda designed to alter Canadian culture.”

She also said that the secret one-day mid-summer session of the BC Legislature that added the undefined terms ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’ to the BC Human Rights Code “was a strategic assault against British Columbians and their liberties. Ramming it through first, second and third readings plus a token ‘committee referral’ all in one day doesn’t pass the smell test. The fix was in.

“The public wasn’t made aware of the unusual July 26, 2016 session that passed that bill in one day,” she said. “But about 100 sex activists were well aware of it, and filled the public gallery. Some of them were recognized from the floor by MLAs on both sides of the House, who went out with the activists after the bill passed to celebrate their ‘victory’.”

We encourage our readers to educate themselves about SOGI 123 curriculum. There are multiple websites which they should visit to learn more about SOGI 123 and why it is important for them to engage in an electoral process and elect school board trustees whom have taken a stand against SOGI 123 curriculum. One of the best and most up to date website on educating parents is CultureGuard.com, STOPSOGI.COM, and parentsunitedcanada.com

We still have time to vet the school board trustees’ candidate to inquire and understand whether they support or oppose SOGI. Candidates across BC are now openly taking a stand for and ARE campaigning against SOGI, and there’s a push to support candidates who are against SOGI. The pro-SOGI camp have already rallying to keep these parents out of the school board trustees positions for their stand against SOGI.

Similarly, according to Elections BC website, “British Columbia is having a referendum on what voting system we should use for provincial elections. The referendum is being held by mail from October 22 to November 30, 2018. Registered voters will get a voting package in the mail from Elections BC between October 22 and November 2, 2018.”

We encourage our readers to register themselves, or if they have moved recently to ensure their information is up to date with Elections BC.

Voters will be asked two questions on the referendum ballot.

The first question asks if we should keep the current First Past the Post voting system or move to a system of proportional representation.

The second question asks voters to rank three proportional systems: Dual Member Proportional (DMP), Mixed Member Proportional (MMP), and Rural-Urban Proportional (RUP).

Everyone is familiar with the FPTP which has in past resulted in parties with the most popular votes sitting in the opposition benches, and parties with merely thirty five percent of popular votes, forming the government. This system is simple and straightforward, but broken. It forces people to vote strategically against the party they dislike the most, often resulting in handing the power to govern to a party we dislike the second most. Basically, the net result hands the power to form government to those whom the majority of the voters did not elect. Simply stated, this system is flawed and it needs to be replaced with a better system which can represent all voters. Therefore, BC NDP government is proposing changes to this system to make it fairer for everyone.

Details about the three other systems proposed is available on Elections BC website. It is best to familiarize ourselves on different proposals in order to make an informed choice.

Policynote.ca highlights some of the positive aspects of the proportional voting system. They are as follow: “No more need to engage in strategic voting against who we most fear. Every vote will count. Higher voter turn-out. Better representation of women and minorities. Enhanced local representation. More political choice and more diversity of ideas. More cooperative government. More accountable government.

Whether its participating in the local municipal elections to support candidates for the local school board trustees whom have taken a stand against SOGI 123 Curriculum, or having our voices heard on what kind of elections reform we want. We encourage all our readers to go out and vote. If not for us, do so for our children.

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Article Source: ALAMEENPOST.COM