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Fair Vote Canada on Bluesky
What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control.
First-past-the-post fuels a hyper-partisan two-party system.
If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation.
#cdnpoli
Yeah I agree that FPTP is bad. I wrote to Justin Trudeau to criticize the liberals decision to mothball electoral reform.
But if we change systems while facing annexation from south of the border, and it results in conservative “under performance” (by which I mean the conservative party loses the structural advantage that’s baked into the current system) conservatives in Canada and the USA will cry foul and insist we be “liberated”.
I suppose the way people think about this is so distorted that we should be concerned about “underperformance” of Conservatives under PR?
What about the under performance of the general population? Winner-take-all regularly rewards majority governments to minority of the population.
Me and the general populace are crying foul now, for legitimate reasons.
Totally, FPTP is bad.
On further consideration I think the best move for Canada is to explore membership in the EU, which I believe would entail some level of PR and would be more difficult to criticize from a legitimacy stand point, and would be beneficial in terms of reducing our economic dependence on a now notoriously fickle trading partner.
Yup, that’s right, PR is a requirement to EU.
If Canada joins the EU, Canadian representatives to the European Parliament would need to be elected via proportional representation, it’s part of the requirements.