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It will never be done. Trudeau, Legault, Marois, they all said they would do it but change their mind when they got elected.
As long as money and wealth keep heavily influencing and controlling our government … elections will never change.
Jeez, that’s higher support than I thought. I always thought it was more of a fringe issue. It will probably be like marijuana. Popular policy for a long time until it finally gets adopted.
I think this is partially because the question is very vague. I generally support PR and wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of Canadians do too, but I think if you compare the current system to just “proportional representation”, it allows respondents to imagine their ideal system that fits within PR.
I remember answering this survey, and thinking the results would be drastically less favorable if you describes a specific system, like for example, MMP. Similarly if you added more details, like would their be less local representatives, or would parliament have to expand significantly?
The good thing about proportional representation is that once it’s adopted it stays because people appreciate the system more as they try out it for the first time.
