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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Good luck convincing the government to enact it when they've already decided our poor populace just doesn't have "enough interest" in the idea.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Not sure why this is down voted. This is exactly what happened. Trudeau ran on electoral reform in 2015. That was gonna be the last FPTP election, he said. Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it. Shortly after, they threw the whole thing down the garbage chute.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well the fact that other parties wouldn't agree with the Liberals' solution didn't help (even though it would have been better than what we have at the moment).

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

You’re giving the liberals too much slack here when they need more pressure to do the right thing. The smaller parties and independents only want a fairer system that the most democracies use such as Norway or Sweden, which is proportional representation.

People don’t want to be forced into two camps they don’t like.

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