The Star decides to attack MMP again.

Quite remarkably, the Toronto Star has decided to attack MMP a 2nd time within a week in their editorial section and again recommend it be rejected. This time in their editorial, they decided to stay away from charging there would be “appointed MPP’s”, a feature of their column last week, but they repeated the “unstable government” theme, as well as the fear of radical fringe parties holding the legislature hostage.

I’m not going to get into attacking their charges; they’ve used the same stuff before which has been easily refuted – what I find of interest is that they are so concerned about MMP that despite some polls showing it won’t likely pass, they felt the need to attack it again. I believe the clue to the reasoning behind this is in their last sentence of this editorial: Our system does not need a “fix,” because it isn’t broken. They have indicated in this column (and last week’s) that the Star editors have no desire for electoral reform of ANY kind, and I believe they want the “status quo” vote to be so overwhelming, that it will end any talk of electoral reform for at least a decade. At least with the Globe, they indicated that they like MMP, just not this particular version of it – and they advocated another go at it. The Star has become the status-quo champion on the other hand – a disappointment from a normally progressive-minded paper.