Most Canadians who plan on voting for the Liberal party are more motivated to stop the Conservatives from winning the election rather than endorsing the party's vision and leader, according to a new poll released on Monday.

Most Canadians who plan on voting for the Liberal party are more motivated to stop the Conservatives from winning the election rather than endorsing the party’s vision and leader, according to a new poll released on Monday.

  • psvrh
    48·
    10 months ago

    And this is why the LPC will never pass electoral reform (except for ranked ballot, because they’re more likely to be everyone’s second choice) because under full PR they’d never, ever, get another majority government despite having tepid support among the voting population. For the record, the CPC wouldn’t even support ranked ballots as they’re almost never the second choice of anyone (because their policies–when they can be bothered to articulate them–are unpopular, believe it or not)

    For the record, no Canadian political party has had >50% of the popular vote in half a century, and even before then it was exceedingly rare. FPtP allows the LPC or CPC to sneak a majority in, anyways.

    • Swordgeek
      30·
      10 months ago

      This is also why the one thing Trudeau could do to make me respect him would be say, “I’m stepping down as leader. My last act as PM is to roll out legitimate proportional representation.”

      The Liberals are probably not going to win the next election no matter what; but legitimate reform would mean an end to autocratic majorities.

      • psvrh
        12·
        10 months ago

        He’d face a full caucus revolt if he tried. I’d expect the Liberals would prefer to lose a vote of confidence than implement PR.

        Honestly, I think they’d also rather lose than implement anything remotely economically progressive.