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I'm a proud Canadian, but I'd be even more proud if we had the electoral reform he explicitly promised in his first campaign. He accomplished some good things, but fuck we coulda used that.
This might not be a popular opinion here, but I'm really not all that hurt by the fact that he didn't try to go through with the electoral reform stuff. I don't think it's going to have enough support to have a chance of passing until we spend another couple of decades or so dancing around it. Backing off a campaign promise because you come to the conclusion that it isn't really feasible isn't the worst thing a politician can do (and bulling forward even though you've been repeatedly told it isn't a good idea gets you Donald Trump). That a centrist party made electoral reform a campaign promise at all indicates that the idea is gaining traction, and while faster would be nice, I'll settle for progress in baby steps over no progress at all.
I'm sorry, but I do not believe that's what happened.
This article gives a timeline of the events in line with how I recall things (and why I don't accept that the failure to reform was the result of a good-faith attempt).
Also if you watch the electoral reform segment on Nathaniel Erskine-Smith's podcast interviewing Trudeau, he quite literally says that PR survived the committee process further than he had hoped, and he had to put the brakes on electoral reform against the recommendations of the committee and experts because he personally was very against PR.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
And sure, I suppose that he was "told repeatedly that it wasn't a good idea", if you count liberal party appointees, and discount a non-partisan committee and expert opinions:
If you're willing to forgive this stuff, that's fine, it's your call to make.
But how this process unfolded convinced me that the electoral reform campaign promise had never been anything more than cynical manipulation of a very engaged interest group of voters, and the failure of the process was very messily engineered to provide cover for Trudeau to back out of it.
I'm gonna tell you unfortunately that if we did have that, we would have had the conservatives from 2019 onwards soooooo... Yeah, people can be fucking dumb still.
According to the modelling I can find, ~~yes, the conservative party would have won the most seats in 2021 if we'd had a more proportional system.~~ I goofed, FairVote actually has the cons winning more seats under STV, but the liberals more under MMR.
But critically, it does not mean that the Conservative Party would have formed goverment, because under a more proportional system, they would not have had the seats to form a majority.
They would have been forced to either build a coalition with another party or parties, or they would have had to allow a majority coalition to form government if they were unable to make enough concessions to do so.