We’re going to get 8 years of Conservatives blaming the liberals for why they too can’t make life more affordable. While also rolling back social protections.
It’s how Canadians roll: we decide we like a party leader, we elect them, and after eight or ten years we decide it’s time for a change. It doesn’t matter who the other leader is, we just decide to switch.
The problem is that it’s a guaranteed pendulum between the Liberals and Conservatives. Without a third party, the out-of-power party just needs to wait. They don’t need compelling policy, they don’t need a decent leader, they just need to show up.
Agh. Truly. Is there any way to reform the electoral system without relying on an elected party to make it happen?
There are ways but the most common methods of political reform in history are rather violent, unfortunately.
I do think we need youth more involved in politics and a less apathetic population. I think vote reform should come from the local/municipal level and move up from there once a good chunk of cities have it, but unfortunately in Ontario the Progressive Conservatives stopped making it legal for municipalities to change their system.
It’s how Canadians roll: we decide we like a party leader, we elect them, and after eight or ten years we decide it’s time for a change. It doesn’t matter who the other leader is, we just decide to switch.
I mean we elected a party that promised Electoral Reform and that this would be the last FPTP election. That should’ve been enough. They just changed their minds after they won.
This is not accurate, the majority on the electoral reform committee on the house was the NDP, Greens, CPC and BLoc. They passed from committee reccomendations that ensured electoral reform wouldn’t pass the house. They should wear this as much as anyone.
Yes, of course. Canada and its provinces stand as a democracy. The population at large are in charge. They can do whatever they want. The only thing that can get in their way is themselves.
And that population has tested the electoral reform waters numerous times, especially provincially where referendums have been hosted on multiple occasions to gauge opinion, but interest in change has struggled to present itself.
It’s a summertime poll in a non-election year. It’s about as useless as tits on a fish.
Outside of election season in general. No poll has any real value as they swing wildly back and forth depending on what’s going on.
Most voters have such short term memory that they forget what’s been said and done outside of election season unless if it gets memed on.
High cost of living, unsustainable gas prices, runaway climate change, housing crisis, stagnant wages.
I’m sure the right wingers will be the perfect solution to these problems.
We’re fucked. Even more, I mean.
