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The unofficial non-partisan Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.

🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.

Le mouvement non officiel et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.

🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.


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We're looking for more moderators, especially those who are of French and indigenous identities.

Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.

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Preface

I'm writing this on the eve of Ontario's 2025 election. I know that this is unfortunately another election that is not held under a proportional representation (PR) electoral system.

I am just an ordinary Canadian citizen -- I don't consider myself an activist, yet I can recognize an unfair and abusive system.

But now is not the time to let pessimism dissuade us from the democracy we deserve. With Duverger's Law (i.e., in non-PR electoral systems, a trend towards a two-parties), we are running out of time to act. Canada's 2021 effective number of parties is 2.76 - this number will decrease over time, and will eventually end Canadian democracy as we know it today.

I'm not writing this to get donation money (although here is the Fair Vote Canada donation site), but this is just the reality with live with and the future we are fighting for.

Proposed 2025 objective

While I love a good, yeasty, loaf of bread 🍞, [email protected] has 638 subscribers, which is 144.4% more than our 261. I suppose you could say I'm jealous.

Next steps

Before the end of March 2025, please comment on whether:

  • this is a good objective to have
  • if it's not a good objective, what other objectives should we pursue
  • Ideas on how to achieve our objectives
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Dominic LeBlanc

Chrystia Freeland

Mélanie Joly

François-Philippe Champagne

Anita Anand

Karina Gould

They were all caught on record voting against electoral reform on motion m-86. We deserve better than this.

The liberal supporters need to choose a decent liberal leader who supports proportional representation.

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It’s clear that FPTP is far from being a fair and democratic system. That’s why we need a better solution. A proportional representation-based (PR) electoral system is one where election results reflect who each individual voted for, ensuring everyone has representation that matches their beliefs. Coalitions of parties can help establish a consensus, and can make it far less likely that a new policy will immediately be thrown out by the next government.

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CIVIX Canada on Bluesky

📢 The results for #StudentVoteON are now in!

🍁 242,407 students cast ballots from 1,839 schools in Ontario ⁠

✔️ Access the preliminary results here: studentvote.ca/results/on2025

Results by Party

Party Seats Seats % Vote %
PC 51 41.13% 24.14%
ONDP 41 33.06% 23.47%
OLP 28 22.58% 23.74%
GPO 3 2.42% 15.55%
Ind. 1 0.81% 2.22%
New Blue Party 0 0.00% 5.66%
Ontario Party 0 0.00% 2.17%
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https://www.fairvote.ca/board-election-2025/

Fair Vote Canada is guided by a volunteer Board of 15 Directors. Seven Directors are to be elected this year. Five elected candidates will serve three-year terms. One is to be elected to a two-year term, and one to a one-year term.

Important Dates Description
2025-03-11 Information session for Prospective Candidates. Registration link here.
2025-03-14 is the last date for new members to join in order to be eligible to run or vote. To be a member, you must have donated $25 to Fair Vote Canada over the year (or $5 if you are a low income/youth/equity-seeking group) or donate at least $5 monthly. Donate here.
2025-04-14 deadline for nominations. Candidates may self-nominate by completing this form.
2025-05-14 Voting begins.
2025-05-24 Voting closes. Results announced.
2025-06-07 Election results are ratified by members at our Annual General Meeting (by Zoom).
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In these 32 ridings the PC candidate won thanks to vote splitting. Results are as of this morning and may have changed slightly.

Thanks to all spoiler candidates listed below /s

26 spoiler candidates are New Democrats, 11 are Green, and 5 are Liberal. Only one NDP candidate, Natasha Doyle-Merrick, had the decency to step down in Eglinton-Lawrence, but that election was still spoiled by Green candidate Leah Tysoe 😡

First past the post 👎👎👎


York South-Weston: election spoiled by Faisal Hassan (NDP); Daniel Di Giorgio (Liberal) would have won by 7957 votes (25%)

Hamilton Mountain: election spoiled by Kojo Damptey (NDP); Dawn Danko (Liberal) would have won by 8021 votes (21%)

Peterborough-Kawartha: election spoiled by Jen Deck (NDP); Adam Hopkins (Liberal) would have won by 7232 votes (13%)

Sault Ste. Marie: election spoiled by Gurwinder Dusanjh (Liberal); Lisa Vezeau-Allen (NDP) would have won by 2920 votes (10%)

Burlington: election spoiled by Megan Beauchemin (NDP); Andrea Grebenc (Liberal) would have won by 4447 votes (8%)

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek: election spoiled by Zaigham Butt (NDP); Heino Doessing (Liberal) would have won by 2784 votes (7%)

Kitchener South-Hespeler: election spoiled by Jeff Donkersgoed (NDP) and Jessica Riley (Green); Ismail Mohamed (Liberal) would have won by 2653 votes (7%)

Scarborough Centre: election spoiled by Sonali Chakraborti (NDP); Mazhar Shafiq (Liberal) would have won by 2104 votes (7%)

Kitchener-Conestoga: election spoiled by Jodi Szimanski (NDP); Joe Gowing (Liberal) would have won by 2636 votes (6%)

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound: election spoiled by Joel Loughead (Green) and James Harris (NDP); Selwyn Hicks (Liberal) would have won by 2591 votes (6%)

Wellington-Halton Hills: election spoiled by Bronwynne Wilton (Green) and Simone Kent (NDP); Alex Hilson (Liberal) would have won by 3061 votes (6%)

Bay of Quinte: election spoiled by Amanda Robertson (NDP); David O'Neil (Liberal) would have won by 2629 votes (6%)

Mississauga-Erin Mills: election spoiled by Mubashir Rizvi (NDP); Qasir Dar (Liberal) would have won by 2067 votes (6%)

Thunder Bay-Atikokan: election spoiled by Stephen Margarit (Liberal); Judith Monteith-Farrell (NDP) would have won by 1436 votes (5%)

Willowdale: election spoiled by Boris Ivanov (NDP); Paul Saguil (Liberal) would have won by 1192 votes (4%)

Eglinton-Lawrence: election spoiled by Leah Tysoe (Green); Vince Gasparro (Liberal) would have won by 1223 votes (3%)

Milton: election spoiled by Katherine Cirlincione (NDP) and Susan Doyle (Green); Kristina Tesser Derksen (Liberal) would have won by 993 votes (2%)

Cambridge: election spoiled by Marjorie Knight (NDP); Rob Deutschmann (Liberal) would have won by 999 votes (2%)

Whitby: election spoiled by Jamie Nye (NDP) and Steven Toman (Green); Roger Gordon (Liberal) would have won by 1130 votes (2%)

Mississauga East-Cooksville: election spoiled by Alex Venuto (NDP); Bonnie Crombie (Liberal) would have won by 649 votes (2%)

Perth-Wellington: election spoiled by Jason Davis (NDP) and Ian Morton (Green); Ashley Fox (Liberal) would have won by 674 votes (2%)

Pickering-Uxbridge: election spoiled by Khalid Ahmed (NDP) and Mini Batra (Green); Ibrahim Daniyal (Liberal) would have won by 692 votes (2%)

Brantford-Brant: election spoiled by Ron Fox (Liberal) and Karleigh Csordas (Green); Harvey Bischof (NDP) would have won by 764 votes (1%)

Parry Sound-Muskoka: election spoiled by David Innes (Liberal); Matt Richter (Green) would have won by 451 votes (1%)

Mississauga-Lakeshore: election spoiled by Spencer Ki (NDP); Elizabeth Mendes (Liberal) would have won by 350 votes (1%)

Newmarket-Aurora: election spoiled by Denis Heng (NDP); Chris Ballard (Liberal) would have won by 329 votes (1%)

Mississauga Centre: election spoiled by Waseem Ahmed (NDP); Sumira Malik (Liberal) would have won by 216 votes (1%)

Etobicoke Centre: election spoiled by Giulia Volpe (NDP) and Brian Morris (Green); John Campbell (Liberal) would have won by 258 votes (1%)

Mississauga-Streetsville: election spoiled by Shoaib Khawar (NDP); Jill Promoli (Liberal) would have won by 183 votes

Scarborough-Rouge Park: election spoiled by Hibah Sidat (NDP) and Victoria Jewt (Green); Morris Beckford (Liberal) would have won by 115 votes

Algoma-Manitoulin: election spoiled by Reg Niganobe (Liberal); David Timeriski (NDP) would have won by 94 votes

Oakville: election spoiled by Diane Downey (NDP); Alison Gohel (Liberal) would have won by 2 votes

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https://www.fairvote.ca/board-election-2025/

Le Mouvement pour la représentation équitable au Canada est guidé par un conseil d’administration composé de 15 membres bénévoles. Sept administrateurs doivent être élus cette année : les cinq premiers élus auront un mandat de trois ans, le sixième aura un mandat de deux ans, et le septième aura un mandat d’un an.

Dates importantes Description
2025-03-11 Session d’information en ligne pour les candidates et candidats potentiels. Inscrivez-vous ici.
2025-03-14 est la dernière date à laquelle les nouveaux membres doivent s’inscrire pour pouvoir se présenter ou voter. Pour devenir membre, vous devez avoir fait un don de 25 $ au Mouvement pour la représentation équitable au Canada au cours de l’année (ou 5 $ si vous êtes un groupe à faible revenu, un groupe de jeunes ou un groupe en quête d’équité) ou faire un don d’au moins 5 $ par mois. Faites un don ici.
2025-04-14 Date limite pour les nominations. Ces personnes se présentent à l’élection en remplissant ce formulaire.
2025-05-14 Le vote commence.
2025-05-24 Clôture du vote. Annonce des résultats.
2025-06-07 Les résultats des élections sont ratifiés par les membres lors de notre assemblée générale annuelle (par Zoom).
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