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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C.S.Strowbridge

@johannab @hub

"PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context."

Take each province with 5 or more seats and divide them into Megaridings of five seats with a balanced remainder. (So, for example, Newfoundland and Labrador would have two Megaridings of 4 and 3 seats each.) Then do PR in each riding.

You keep regional elections, but you can't have a party win 40% of the vote in 60% of the ridings and dominate Parliament with 35% support.