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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (23 children)

We have 4 years to get canadians away from Twitter and Facebook to Mastodon and Friendica to reduce the amount of influence the oligarchs have on our comms.

Lets bring back the vote subsidy, limit the contribution limits to $100 a year, lower the voting age to 16 and pass proportional representation!

[–] neograymatter@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I have mixed feelings about Proportional Representation, I'm worried it would lessen the "local candidate" element of the election. I like the concept of voting for a local representative from my area in Parliament, no matter their party affiliation.

Then again, I like the theory behind Ranked Ballots, but unfortunately in practice they tend to just funnel third party votes to the main parties, which is not right either.

I suppose we could go with PR/STV and triple the amount of representatives to still have some sort of local area representative scheme... but that could get expensive and unwieldy very quick.

Could we get rid of the Senate and have two houses? One house small riding FPTP for local area representation, and one house be party based PR by province?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Had you not heard of mixed-member proportional rep?

If you really like the local representation that could be for you. The only recent time I can think regional MPs actually coming into play is the heating oil exemption, though.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's throw a wrench into things: Dual Member Proportional, a system that doesn't send people who haven't directly stood for election to Ottawa.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Huh, that one's new to me as well! Interesting.

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