The reason it wasn't put through from Trudeau is because he went for ranked ballots, leading to guaranteed Liberals majority. People want proportional representation not just alternatives to FPTP. He could've passed it but it would've led to massive protest for essentially making him and his party a guaranteed dictator.
Exactly, it's why it's dead. All three of the main parties have different systems in mind for electoral reform, ensuring nothing ever happens because the chosen system is only really going to benefit one party. It's an issue set to turn into the likes of equalization or senate reform, something talked about at times, but never seriously considered.
How are you supposed to get a job after damaging your brain licking toadstools?
Well the conservatives got 5.5 million votes and the Libs got 5.2 million. By popular vote the conservatives won. I personally like the ranked ballot best. It ensures leaders that the majority of the population find acceptable. The more complicated forms of proportional representation will leave most Canadians in the dark about how their leaders are elected. If we had a ranked ballot there would be a lot more feasible smaller parties because vote splitting wouldn't be a thing.
No it wouldn't, a ranked ballot would knock out the Greens+PPC+Independents, then whichever is last between NDP,CPC,LPC, would be knocked out, generally leading to LPC having 50%+ of the vote. It would ALWAYS lead to LPC super majority, not help third parties ever. Even in ranked, with weighted points, it would always lead to LPC. We have 3 parties in Canada, Left (NDP), Left-Center (LPC), Right-Center (CPC), with LPC being the center party, ergo always winning a ranked ballot.
I think that'd actually be worse. In that scenario, most of the electoral votes would be stacked in Ontario and Quebec - and the only time that the Conservatives have won both provinces were in the two elections where Brian Mulroney won absolutely fuckoff huge majorities. Every election would therefore turn into either an outright Liberal win, or an inconclusive election that would presumably be decided in parliament, where the Liberals have the advantage in piecing together electoral coalitions.
But most ridings heavily favour Quebec and Ontario already. With a US electoral system you'd, ideally, get equal representation for smaller provinces,
That'd be a bit of a double-edged sword. Yeah, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba would get more representation in that scenario... but so would the Atlantic provinces, which have trended extremely pro-Liberal in the last few elections.
As much as I despise Trudeau, I don't see any signs of election fraud here. If there was any, he would have gotten his majority government.
That’s what I basically said, but the boomer is convinced that Joe Biden somehow hacked this election to keep Trudeau in power.
Yikes. Tell him to have a Coffee Crisp and to calm his tits.
I am lord of the fractals. I have no need for this "job" thing you speak of. I am like that of a god; in my drug fueled frenzy I simply walk over to this portal thing I call a monitor, and through the filter of rainbow and light rays I summon money from the Ether, otherwise known as the Canadian Revenue Agency. Just through the act of existing I am rewarded with gifts from the Universe itself. I then walk down to my local Kiaro across the street and using this government space bucks I buy all the weed I want, and then return back to my lair to consume for the month.
That's stupid, because whoever won Ontario and Quebec could win consistently.
I heard some stories about the kids of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien who are married to the kids of medias owners like his daughter France Chretien Desmarais, daughter of Paul Desmarais who once owned some of the major newspapers in Quebec.
I'm so glad I voted for this man.
TFW a fucking business email address is "personal information."
