text: The process of electoral reform has been sandbagged repeatedly by the vested interests that benefit from a disenfranchised electorate. 
  
  Both reform efforts in Ontario and in B.C. were swept under the carpet and sprung on unsuspecting electorates to face near certain defeat as political orphans in obscure election-day add ons. 
  
  Canadians are the losers here in a system where 39 per cent of the vote gives absolute power to one party while the majority get no voice.