Yes same. Although the LPC in 2015 didn’t promise to enact proportional representation, they only promised that 2015 would be the last election under FPTP.
When it came down to it, Trudeau wanted IRV, and everyone else wanted proportional representation, so he killed it.
If it’s not proportional representation, every other electoral reform change is a distraction.
Yes, you’re right that IRV is technically better than FPTP. Although both are winner-take-all electoral systems.
But also, the difference between IRV and STV (a proportional representation electoral system) is less than the difference between IRV and FPTP. So really, anybody preferring IRV when STV exists, is either uninformed or has ulterior motives.
With IRV being a winner-take-all electoral system, we still have wasted votes. A healthy democracy must ensure that every vote counts.
This is why I say: in the long run, the only viable long term solution is proportional representation: https://lemmy.ca/c/fairvote
Yes same. Although the LPC in 2015 didn’t promise to enact proportional representation, they only promised that 2015 would be the last election under FPTP.
When it came down to it, Trudeau wanted IRV, and everyone else wanted proportional representation, so he killed it.
If it’s not proportional representation, every other electoral reform change is a distraction.
Read more here.
See IRV still would have been better. But instead what we got is nothing.
Yes, you’re right that IRV is technically better than FPTP. Although both are winner-take-all electoral systems.
But also, the difference between IRV and STV (a proportional representation electoral system) is less than the difference between IRV and FPTP. So really, anybody preferring IRV when STV exists, is either uninformed or has ulterior motives.
With IRV being a winner-take-all electoral system, we still have wasted votes. A healthy democracy must ensure that every vote counts.
This is why I say: in the long run, the only viable long term solution is proportional representation: https://lemmy.ca/c/fairvote
Oh I totally agree