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ABC. Anything but conservative. FPTP is winner takes all, so vote for Liberal or NDP depending on who's more likely to get in in your area. And pray to whatever force may be that someone puts in a sensible voting system at some point.
Remember when Trudeau promised election reform when he was elected the first time?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I remember every election when I vote NDP.
We got dental and in theory pharma with this minority government. Maybe the NDP can twist their arm into voting reforms next time if we get another?
I remember seeing an analysis of FPTP and in about 70% of the elections since the 60s it favoured the Liberals against NDP and PC on a riding by riding and general election basis. It'll be a cold day in hell before they change anything.
Which is disgusting! Their job is supposed to be about doing what is best for the people who live here, not whatever best serves the interests of their party. If there were a system that was good for the people while eliminating the concept of parties, every party should be glad to do the work of implementing it.
Or just vote NDP regardless so that we can stop praying.
If voting NDP had any more effect than pissing in the wind in my area I would. Unfortunately, they rarely get a significant percentage of the vote and when they do we go conservative. So it's either hold my nose and vote lib or help a conservative who doesn't even live in the city get in.
If polling changes to show the NDP beating the libs here I'm 100% changing my vote. Until then, the system sucks so sometimes voting sucks.
As a former resident who lived in (ugh) ol' Stevie Harper's riding, I totally sympathize. However, I took great pleasure in being the green blip in an otherwise homogeneous blue sea. I hope I made them insecure or at least forced them to have to hire an extra analyst...just that one little canker sore in his otherwise perfect, sterile version of Canada.
Well, because the liberals didn't reform elections as they promised, we can't do that.
You can, in fact, vote for NDP.
Yeah⦠how convenient.
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I really feel privileged to live in an area that's NDP vs LPC where I can merrily vote against the Liberals.
Local riding π€ it is. π
In any case it's the local riding election that matters. Some folks vote as if our system is proportional with completely counterproductive results.