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submitted 3 months 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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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago

We repeat that every time this chart looks like this. Which is almost every election. We even elected a guy on the promise to change it. 🥹

[-] bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

Its the same "power corrupts" story again and again. Karina Gould gave an impassioned speech on electoral reform (http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/house/sitting-64/hansard#Int-8963139). But after replacing Maryam Monsef as Minister of Democratic Institutions, her views suddenly became far more simplistic. In a 2017 interview on CBC's Metro Morning, she was asked "Why is it important that people at the very least believe every vote counts?". She replies "Because they do. … We literally count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, up to the majority that wins."

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