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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 of 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 (FPP)?
- What is Proportional Representation (PR)?
- What is a Citizens’ Assembly?
- Why referendums aren't necessary
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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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If only Canada had a party that would promise to make this election to be the last first past the post, we'd all know who to pick. I'm sure they'd never go back on their word for that, right?
They made a lot of promises. Some of them they didn't keep. Let's just go see the trudeaumeter and have a quick comparison.
Wait. Where's oTooleMeter? scheerMeter? BitcoinMilhouseMeter?
This is a conspiracy.
Yeah, I definitely voted Liberal in the last few elections, but my vote is likely NDP in the next. I'm still very bitter about the broken promise of elections reform. I'm just pissed because that broken promise has all but guaranteed a Conservative majority next election because the "anyone but cons" vote will be split, and gain them a victory instead.
A conspiracy? Trudeau is the only one in that list that is PM lol
(and he did promise to end FPTP and didn't)
Same here in the UK.
No matter what a party says before they are elected, as soon as they are in power then suddenly they are the ones with the most to lose from Proportional Representation, and nothing to gain. So they won't do it.
Really illustrates that political parties (at least the two major ones) are only motivated by getting in power and staying in power - never mind what is actually good for the people they supposedly serve.
The Lib Dems tried to get it through, but it wasn't voted for.
Labour and the Tories quite like things as they are; they get to run the show without having to work for the support of more than a small slice of the electorate and, at worst, they just need to switch chairs every few years. Anything other than FPTP would be political suicide for either of them.
Same for the Canadian Liberal and Conservative parties, as well the Democrats and Republicans in the US.
That said, I used to think more highly of PR until the right wing swept through Europe, but to be honest that has a lot to do with the left-wing parties ceding economic populism to the right because, frankly, they like being invited to posh parties and hobnobbing with the rich, as opposed to pounding the pavement trying to get working class votes. Plus, identity politics was kind of a feedback loop for them: they could look progressive while still staying on the side of the rich.