Emily Lowan on Next Steps for the BC Greens | The Tyee
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The party’s new leader talks taxes, rallying support and the NDP’s drift to the right.
  • LeviEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    I like her priorities. NDP has been pretty disappointing to me.

    • Sunshine (she/her)OPEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      Yup, BCNDP lost me when they dropped their 2017 promise of passing proportional representation after they formed government.

      • LimpRimbleMEnglish
        22·
        6 days ago

        BCNDP lost me when they dropped their 2017 promise of passing proportional representation

        The promise was to hold a referendum on PR, a promise they kept in 2018. > 60% voted to keep fptp.

        • Sunshine (she/her)OPEnglish
          21·
          6 days ago

          They didn’t originally promise it on a referendum during the lead up to the election but to pass it in a parliamentary majority. The establishment wing of the ndp ensured that democratic reform was designed to fail. We had a citizen’s assembly decide on the matter in 2004 on stv because people do not have the time to research all the electoral systems, they just know they want proportional representation. Fearmongering from the rich and powerful is very effective. I wouldn’t be surprised if you censor those who disagree with you again.

          They’re affiliated with the federal party which says they want mixed-member proportional, the public does not deserve scams.

          They didn’t have referendum and all this consultation when the establishment passed ranked ballots in 1952 to prevent the leftwing Co-operative Commonwealth from winning a majority of the seats.

          95% of countries get pr through multiparty support in parliament not through referendums.