• Beaver@lemmy.caOP
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    4 months ago

    We must continue the education campaign to increase those percentage points as the corporate politicians have not faced enough pressure for enabling the powerful few.

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    4 months ago

    The quote was incomplete it didn’t include the implied bits

    “only a few people who count want proportional representation”

    i.e. politicians don’t want to change the game they have already won to be a politician

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    “only a few people” want it.

    All of those people are not Liberal or Conservative apparatchiks who realize that PR would mean no more majority governments with ~35% of the vote.

    If the NDP forms a government, even a minority with the support of, say, the BQ, this should be their day-two deliverable. No consultations, no committees. Just do it.

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ahh yes the first time I felt truly disillusioned by Canadian politics. The day he pulled that shit. I think I knew it as I was filling out the PR survey. I thought… these questions are worded weird… uh oh.