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What is This Group is About?/De Quoi Parle ce Groupe?

The unofficial Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels government in Canada.

Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.

Le mouvement non officiel de Lemmy visant à amener la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.

Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.

What is First-Past-The-Post?

What is a Citizens’ Assembly?

What is Proportional Representation?

Related Communities/Communautés Associées:

!rcv@ponder.cat

!fairvote@lemmy.world

!makevotesmatter@lemmy.ca

Resources/Ressources:

Open Parliament

Members of Parliament

388 Canada

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Official Organizations/Organisations Officielles:

Fairvote Canada

Fairvote US

Makevotesmatter UK

We're looking for more moderators especially those who are of french and indigenous identities.

Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.

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[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Some liberals did vote in favour of electoral reform, and supported the motion, and had it as part of their platform. But I get your point that they are ultimately responsible for not passing reform. Maybe time to try again.

Ideally it would be put to Canadians on whether we want to move forward with PR or STV/ranked ballot. Status quo not being an option. Arguably democracy is eroding, this a meaningful pro democracy reform.

My biggest concern with PR is that it would give a platform to extremists, but I'm less concerned about that these days as they seem to have a platform anyway. The next thing I think we need to consider is whether PR makes sense in the context of Canada, we aren't a small country geographically and we aren't homogenous. Local representation matters.