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Topic: Gender Equality Consultation
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Wilf Day
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posted 15 September 2005 12:35 AM
quote: Originally posted by Tehanu: How about increasing party subsidies for those that have gender parity among candidates?
The New Brunswick Commission on Legislative Democracy recommended at p. 99: quote: Financial Incentives for PartiesThe Commission believes that parties should receive additional funding through the annual allocation they are entitled to under the Political Process Financing Act if they nominate more women. Under this allocation formula, parties are entitled to an annual monetary amount for each vote they won during the previous provincial election. . . This amount is . . . currently $1.73 per valid vote. . . The Commission recommends that the amount per valid vote be increased by $1.00 for parties . . . if women constitute at least 35 percent of their candidates in a general election. Also: The Electoral System The Commission believes that changing from the single member plurality system to our proposed regional mixed member proportional system is essential to electing more women to the New Brunswick legislature. We further believe that no significant improvement in the level of women’s representation is likely to occur in the near future under the current electoral system.
And Quebec's draft Election Reform bill provides, at s. 115 - 118 that parties receive annual funding totalling 50 cents per voter divided between them in proportion to the percentage of votes received by their candidates in the last general election, but a party gets an extra 5% if it ran at least 30% women in the last election, 10% if it ran at least 35%, and 15% if it ran at least 40% women. It also provides at s. 559 to 562 that a party will receive a subsidy of 50% of election expenses of candidates who get at least 15% of the vote, but if it runs at least 30% women this will increase to 65% of the expenses for any woman who is elected, and if it runs at least 35% women it will be 70%, and if it runs more than 40% women it will be 75%.
From: Port Hope, Ontario | Registered: Oct 2002
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