Wird jemand feste Wahltermine verpassen?
https://www.tvo.org/article/analysis-will-anyone-miss-fixed-election-dates
Wird jemand feste Wahltermine verpassen?
https://www.tvo.org/article/analysis-will-anyone-miss-fixed-election-dates
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Hard to miss something that was never really there. Don’t mind getting rid of them though, I’m judging most policies these days on whether they move us closer to, or farther away, from Americanism and this ‚reform‘ was always about meeting cultural expectations from south of the border.
Nah. Thanks to the Constitution’s maximum term limit of 5 years, any law that sets a lower maximum would never have withstood a challenge.
The only ones who will really miss it are the opposition parties, since it will be more difficult for them to prepare for elections.
The real question is if people will miss riding redistributions. They’re supposed to happen every decade, but Ford’s given no indication that they’ll happen this time around. It doesn’t really make sense why he opposed them, since the new riding boundaries would benefit the PCs, but it’s just rather bizarre.
No. It was a nothingburger legislation that Harper enacted at the federal level to mimic the US, and the provinces followed suit for no reason.
I never liked the idea of fixed election dates.
I think it is specifically advantageous with a republic right next to us that has fixed dates.
Varying Canadian elections allows us to determine our own politics.
The us is already a cultural elephant to sleep next too.
The law never really had much teeth to begin with, it was just a suggestion. If you really wanted to move closer to fixed election dates while respecting the dynamics of the Westminster system you could potentially force a government to seek the consent of the House of Commons to dissolve Parliament early. That way the opposition in minority parliaments can have real teeth to prevent a repeat of 2021, for example. But I’m not entirely sure such a thing would be constitutional.