Program Title: Single transferable vote: Potential impacts on social issues
Description: This year’s B.C. provincial election will include a referendum on whether or not B.C. citizens want to adopt a new electoral system based on the concept of a “single transferable vote�. In our first look at the upcoming provincial election in May, we revisit the “STV� and look at how its adoption might affect social policy and social issues.

Host(s): Kevin Midbo, Jan Coleman
Featured Speakers/Guests: Jordan Ellis, local organizer for BC-STV in the mid-Vancouver-Island region, Sandy McPherson, an organizer from Cowichan Valley, Jamie Deith, an organizer from the north-Vancouver-Island region and a director with Fair Voting B.C., and Tanis Dagert, a participant in the B.C.Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform in 2004.

Credits: People First Radio is an initiative of Columbian Centre Society in partnership with Open Minds Open Windows Society, both of Nanaimo B.C. and is broadcast on CHLY 101.7 FM in Nanaimo.

Comments: General discussion about the single transferable vote (STV) variation of proportional representation, its potential impact on social issues and social policy, two audio clips from STV website, some local content at end of interview but suitable for general rebroadcast.