Engage Barrie
Description: Information and Calls To Action re: municipal ranked ballot elections
Engage Barrie is a collective that formed in 2019 to help foster an equitable community, mobilize and empower people, and build an engaged local democracy. We believe that the more people who share their ideas about our city, the more diverse, representative and equitable our municipal actions will become.
In summer 2020, the City of Barrie agreed to make ranked ballots a referendum question in 2022 – joining a group of cities working towards adopting this more democratic method of selecting Council. In October, the Provincial government proposed a bill to eliminate that choice for municipalities. (This motion was piggybacked on a bill that was intended to deal with COVID recovery – without any explanation as to how eliminating municipalities' right to choose their election procedure would have anything to do
Tell your MPPs We want to KEEP our right to choose!
Engage Barrie