Nick Loenen
MLA for Richmond
In office
1987–1991
Personal details
Born1942 or 1943 (age 80–81)[1]
Political partySocial Credit Party of British Columbia

Nick Loenen (born 1943) is a Canadian former politician. Loenen was born in the Netherlands and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956.[2] He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991, as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Richmond.[3]

In 1997 Loenen's best-selling book, Citizenship and Democracy: A Case for Proportional Representation, was published. The book makes a case that Canada's first-past-the-post voting system is inefficient and leads to many wasted votes. Loenen argues that proportional representation is the solution.[2]

References

  1. "Review - More News October 28, 2004". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  2. 1 2 Leonen, Nick; Boyer, J. Patrick (1997-09-01). Citizenship and Democracy: A Case for Proportional Representation. Dundurn.
  3. Guide Parlementaire Canadien. 1994. ISBN 9780921925545.


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