While Justin Trudeau abandoned his commitment to electoral reform all the way back in 2017, the issue has endured because Canadians understand that our voting system fails to accurately represent the will of voters. But this Trudeau failure is an opportunity for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP to become the outspoken champions of electoral reform.

It should be made clear that Trudeau still rejects proportional representation—a system where parties get seats based on their vote percentage—and continues to partially blame opposition parties for his own inaction. He still prefers a ranked ballot system—where you number your preferred candidates in order on your ballot—which would not have made “every vote count” as he pledged in 2015. A recent article from NDP MP Matthew Green and Joseph Gubbels showcases Trudeau’s flawed approach to reform.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 day ago

    Add 62 seats to the Parliament to make it a nice 400 seats

    Distribute the new seats based on the % of votes each party got to make the results as proportional as possible, they’re distributed to the party leader first (if they didn’t get elected in their riding) then to the candidates with the highest % of vote in their riding.

    Ta-fucking-da, no need to change the way people vote, it’s all done behind the scene!

    • tleb
      2·
      18 hours ago

      Isn’t this basically how MMP works?

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Most MMP systems have two separate votes, one local, one for a party, but yes it’s a form of MMP but it doesn’t involve changing the way people vote at the moment.