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submitted 1 week ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

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[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it.

Worse than that, Trudeau straight up said "People wanted electoral reform because they were unsatisfied under the Harper government, now that we're in power everything is fine and people don't care about electoral reform anymore."

Source article in Le Devoir (French), I'll quote the relevant part here:

« Sous M. [Stephen] Harper, il y avait tellement de gens mécontents du gouvernement et de son approche que les gens disaient “ça prend une réforme électorale pour ne plus avoir de gouvernement qu’on n’aime pas”. Or, sous le système actuel, ils ont maintenant un gouvernement avec lequel ils sont plus satisfaits. Et la motivation de vouloir changer le système électoral est moins percutante [ou moins criante] »

[-] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

That quote aged like milk

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Oof, got the receipts and all. Nice job 👍

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

They are in power and you remain unrepresented in government. A huge win for the status quo

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