Mastodawn

HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6993

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Hubert Figuière Dec 2

@johannab Off course it say "PR". It's not "bring back electoral reform". It's "switch to PR"

Big. fucking. difference.

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Hubert Figuière Dec 2

@johannab PR mean "Ontario will control parliament".

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Johanna, CanCon variety Dec 3

@hub Not sure I see how that applies? At least not any more than it does now, because, well, Ontario is the most populous province and you (very roughly) distribute seats based on population.

We just don't fill those seats anywhere near the same proportions as voters want.

PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context. The point of the petition is to get something other than FPTP see-sawing us back and forth.

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Johanna, CanCon variety

@hub

I mean, really, if you're bothered about "Ontario will control parliament", Alberta should never have let Pierre Poilievre show his face there. 🙄 Toxic partisanism, parachute candidates and FPTP are all sending us down the drain.

If anything, something like MMP would disempower partisanism, and let provinces be represented by multi-party regional blocks who have to *gasp* collaborate and govern!!!! Whoa.

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Hubert Figuière Dec 3

@johannab if you do a little bit of math, with PR you'd get more of PP. And Maxime Bernier would get his seat. Your proposal is like single issue voter. Not part of the solution.