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Canada needs proportional representation federally (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Not sure why this is down voted. This is exactly what happened. Trudeau ran on electoral reform in 2015. That was gonna be the last FPTP election, he said. Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it. Shortly after, they threw the whole thing down the garbage chute.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it.

Worse than that, Trudeau straight up said "People wanted electoral reform because they were unsatisfied under the Harper government, now that we're in power everything is fine and people don't care about electoral reform anymore."

Source article in Le Devoir (French), I'll quote the relevant part here:

« Sous M. [Stephen] Harper, il y avait tellement de gens mécontents du gouvernement et de son approche que les gens disaient “ça prend une réforme électorale pour ne plus avoir de gouvernement qu’on n’aime pas”. Or, sous le système actuel, ils ont maintenant un gouvernement avec lequel ils sont plus satisfaits. Et la motivation de vouloir changer le système électoral est moins percutante [ou moins criante] »

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

That quote aged like milk

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oof, got the receipts and all. Nice job 👍

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

They are in power and you remain unrepresented in government. A huge win for the status quo

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well the fact that other parties wouldn't agree with the Liberals' solution didn't help (even though it would have been better than what we have at the moment).

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

You’re giving the liberals too much slack here when they need more pressure to do the right thing. The smaller parties and independents only want a fairer system that the most democracies use such as Norway or Sweden, which is proportional representation.

People don’t want to be forced into two camps they don’t like.