Timothy Jones taps a finger on a hand-drawn chart of the federal election results that shows winner Mark Warawa collected less than half the votes that were cast in the Langley-Aldergrove riding.
Warawa, the incumbent Conservative MP, was elected with 45.5 per cent, more than enough under the current first-past-the-post system that elects whoever gets the most votes.
Jones, a Fort Langley resident who is a member of Fair Vote Canada, argues more than half the voters in the riding were left out in the cold.
The 36.5 per cent who voted for the Liberal, the 12.8 per cent who voted NDP, 4.4 per cent who voted Green and the 0.9 per cent who voted Libertarian (numbers have been rounded) won't have their views represented, he says.
"They don't actually succeed in their votes," Jones says.
"You get a distortionary outcome."
The national results are just as distorted, he says, with the Liberals forming a majority with 39.5 per cent of the vote netting them 54.5 per cent of the seats in parliament.
Under proportional representation, Jones says the results would have reflected the percentages and the Liberals would have formed a minority government that would have had to consult with the other parties to stay in power.
Jones wants the Trudeau government to honour its election pledge to introduce some form of proportional representation, where a majority of votes is not wasted just because people didn't back the winner.
"They (voters) can point to someone in parliament that they helped elect," says Jones.
Fair Vote Canada executive director Kelly Carmichael has called for creation of a "multi-partisan task force bringing together pro-reform citizens and experts" to design a new voting system.
"This election was a referendum on the last false-majority government," Carmichael says.
"(Canadians) coalesced their votes around a promise to end first-past-the-post voting and an opportunity to have a truly democratic voting system that will make all our votes count," Carmichael adds.
Fair Vote Canada describes itself as a grassroots organization representing over 60,000 Canadians.
It has a website, fairvote.ca.
Timothy Jones, who wants to establish a Fort Langley chapter of Fair Vote Canada, can be contacted at tjjones4@telus.net.