„Besser spät als nie“: Waterloo Rally fordert eine proportionale Darstellung
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/better-late-than-never-waterloo-rally-calls-for-proportional-representation/
„Besser spät als nie“: Waterloo Rally fordert eine proportionale Darstellung
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/better-late-than-never-waterloo-rally-calls-for-proportional-representation/
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Frankly, I’m willing to become a single issue voter based around this issue. Whatever party offers it, sincerely, is the party who will undoubtedly receive my vote. Be it at the provincial or federal level.
Trudeau picked up the puck and went home when we didn’t allow him his pet favorite, ranked ballot. Ranked ballot obviously would have entrenched liberal majorities – as was shown by the ample modeling done at that time. His capitulation to fair vote Canada was disingenuous, since he never intended to consider proportional representation or mixed proportional representation.
I hope this failure, and his horrible immigration reforms during the pandemic, are what come to define his tenure. And anyone else who dangles that carrot? They damn well better be sure they go through with it.
Good luck!
BC ran the most positive and informed referendum on this years ago with two simple questions:
1. Do you want to keep FPTP or switch to Proportional Representation
2. In the event Proportional Representation wins >50% from those who vote, rank the three types of Proportional Representation options given.
And we STILL couldn’t get past the first fucking question… I know some of the most hard core left Green voters who argued for keeping FPTP because they thought Proportional Representation meant they’d lose their voice and they refused to watch any of the videos explaining what it was and how it worked.
The terminally ignorant on all sides politically will forever hold us back from having a better system of representation.
Really wish that Trudeau had followed the committee’s recommendations and that Doug Ford hadn’t [repealed Ontario’s municipal electoral reform law](https://opencouncil.ca/ranked-ballot-voting-ontario). In both cases, FPTP would’ve been replaced with better systems.
Great, so you want the sort of government instability that has kept Netanyahu in office in Israel for umpteen years?
Well, I guess it’s stable (umpteen years). Also unstable, given how often they’ve had to hold elections.
Proportional representation disproportionately empowers extremist parties like Otzama Yehudit (far-right, ultranationalist, Kahanist, anti-Arab), since their votes are needed to keep the somewhat less extreme Likud in power.
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I want electoral reform. FPTP sucks. But proprep, in all of its flavors, is not the way to go. We want an electoral system that encourages consensus, rather than extremism.