I am so glad to see this place pop up, it has been my biggest issue in voting. Its fucked up that every vote I have ever cast has been discarded under FPTP.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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Fairvote Canada
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What is This Group is About?/De Quoi Parle ce Groupe?
The unofficial non-partisan 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 et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire 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
- The 219 Corrupt MPs Who Voted Against Advancing Electoral Reform
Related Communities/Communautés Associées
Resources/Ressources
Official Organizations/Organisations Officielles
- Fair Vote Canada: Bluesky
- Fair Voting BC: Bluesky
- Charter Challenge for Fair Voting: Bluesky
- Electoral Renewal Canada: Bluesky
- Vote16: Bluesky
- Longest Ballot Committee: Bluesky
- ~~Make Votes Equal / Make Seats Match Votes~~
- Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (IRV for municipal elections)
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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The fediverse is the perfect place to encourage more people to support proportional representation. Imagine if your only choices were lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.
Your vote should count!
We've been growing at about ~10 new subscribers for the past week. The fair vote movement is truly alive and growing!
We will get proportional representation one day -- we are deserving and entitled to representation!
But we can't do it alone, please spread the word!
Potential Goals:
- Enforce posting standards such as language labelling on new posts (but perhaps not comments). We want to be a bilingual community, supporting both anglophones and francophones.
- At least 1 post for each official language per week.
- ~~Growth of >= 1 subscriber per day in 2025. Possibly monetary incentive, for example, if there's +1 local subscriber -> $1 (and $0.90 for subscribers otherwise) for Fair Vote Canada~~. Have users/month and subscribers be at least >= 3.5% of [email protected].
- Diversifying supply of sources. While Fair Vote Canada is an easy choice, we should seek exposure to other movements such as the Charter Challenge for Fair Voting or Apathy is Boring.
- Self-sustaining community. Currently, it's mostly moderators that are posting. But we are people too...
- Recruit a french moderator. We need someone to focus on that communication front as I'm still a beginner in french maintenant. I suppose a good stopgap can be to post french articles to entice interest.
- Encourage folks to write op-eds to their local papers.
Some additional restrictions on mods: must be registered on a Canadian owned and operated lemmy instance.
Yup, don't want that situation where Dennis Pilon had to fight off 2 bad faith american lawyers trying to argue passing any proportional representation at all in Canada would be "unconstitutional".
In other good news, we are the #17th most visited community this month! We have 785 users/month.
I think these two separate objectives are good, but at the end of the day subscriber count is just a number. The real objective is having an actual representative democracy in Canada at all levels of government.
Even with 261 subs, posts from this comm can reach "all" (that's how I found this place). That's the way to reach people who aren't too engaged with this topic. We just need to have a critical mass of people upvoting.
Good luck voting fellow Ontarians!!! May the 45th Parliament be proportionally representative!
Thanks for your feedback! I was unaware 'all' was a mean to find this fairvote community.
Overall, I agree, but in the meanwhile, we should make a conscious and concerted effort towards a goal.
A sort of sub task leading up to the goal of proportional representation.
Increasing the subscriber count helps towards that (at least in my opinion).
I can see this place with 1k subs one day!
I'm not a Canadian, y'all got this!
Thank you for your encouragement!
More countries are adopting pr!