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Michael Byers recently urged the Liberals and NDP to strike a one-time deal where each party would stand down from running candidates in ridings in which the other party placed higher. But his vote switching theory doesn't fly. Published November 9, 2009 |
OTTAWA—University of British Columbia professor Michael Byers has studied climate change, the war in Afghanistan, and Canada's North. But after a provocative op-ed in last Monday's Toronto Star, I think he should go back and study the actual numbers—at least the fields of voter behaviour and vote switching.
Byers recently urged the two main English Canadian opposition parties, the Liberals and NDP, to strike a...
