Dear Editor:

With the two front runner candidates, Stetski and Wilks, currently locked at 37 percent in the local polls, those voters planning to vote either Green or Liberal need to know that their votes will only serve to help Wilks get re-elected.

Only if those of us who want the Harper Conservatives gone vote together, will we have a chance to rid ourselves of the most undemocratic regime in Canada’s history.

This is the unfortunate reality with our current “first past the post” election system. Right now, those voters in Kootenay Columbia wanting to see change in Ottawa number 63 percent, but if we divvy those votes between the three other candidates, the probable outcome is we will not see any change.

When the NDP forms the next government, they have committed to bring in proportional representation for the next federal election. Under this much fairer election system, every party gets a say in Parliament based on the overall percentage of their national vote.

No longer would we have a repeat of the last four years where the Harper Conservatives, who got only 39 percent of the overall national vote, have dictated to the majority opposition with 61 percent of the votes.

For Kootenay-Columbia voters, this is clearly an opportunity to supersize your vote!

Yours truly,

Gary Werk

Cranbrook