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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.


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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

(Being pedantic here) A couple US states technically use proportional representation in the apportionment of electors in a presidential election (Nebraska and Maine), although it's of course dubious if an elector actually counts as a representative, given how ephemeral they are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wish people would learn that Columbia isn't a country, Colombia is.

[–] Wizard_Pope 4 points 3 weeks ago

If english is not your first language the mistake is harder to avoid. In my native tongue Colombia is called Kolumbija so going to english you can see where the confusion may lie.

[–] vxx 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Technically Colombia once was a part of Columbia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(supercontinent)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

There’s 2 typos so far lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

As someone from Lithuania, you have no idea how crazy our politics can get and how heavily our democracy relies on a rule that a party, in order to get into the parliament, must get at least 5% of the total votes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I always suspected that Australia wasn't really a democracy.

[–] Fandangalo 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

FPPTP

First past past the post?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's what it says, so it must be true