Dave Meslin’s April 15 rabble article, 'The Left must take on electoral reform,' gave a misleading view of the May 12 provincial referendum on electoral systems in British Columbia. And his idea that the Single Transferable Vote, invented in the mid-19th century by a mathematician and lawyer, is electoral “reform” clearly misses the point.

BC-STV would replace B.C.’s 85 single member constituencies with 20 large electoral areas with up to 350,000 people which would each elect two to seven MLAs, using a preferential vote counting system that breaks each single vote into fractions.

In an election campaign that has seen some big whoppers, describing the federal Liberals as the “progressive” answer for voters has to take the prize.

Let's just see how progressive the Paul Martin Liberals really are.

Would this be the progressive Liberal government that joined with the Conservatives to defeat — by just a handful of votes — legislation to ban replacement workers in labour disputes?

Would Paul Martin be the progressive Prime Minister who couldn't bother to even be in the House of Commons for that vote?