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We must keep advocating for proportional representation. If PR dies, so does Canadian democracy as we know it. FPTP is already pushing us toward a two-party system, just like the USA

Canadians, we're witnessing the slow death of our democratic representation, and most of us don't even realize it. Duverger's Law is methodically strangling our political diversity, reducing us to the same polarized two-party hellscape we see south of the border.

The numbers don't lie: Canada's effective number of parties has plummeted to 2.76 in 2021. This isn't just a statistic—it's a death knell for meaningful democratic representation.

Why should you care? Because our current first-past-the-post (FPTP) system is fundamentally broken:

• Millions of votes are literally wasted every election
• Parties can win majority governments with minority vote shares
• We're being pushed toward a binary political landscape that doesn't reflect Canada's complex political reality

The solution is clear: Proportional Representation (PR). Countries using PR consistently show:

• Lower political polarization
• More stable long-term policies
• Better representation of diverse political views

Check out the Charter Challenge for Fair Voting – they're arguing that our current system violates our constitutional rights by rendering millions of votes meaningless.

Fair Vote Canada has the receipts: 76% of Canadians support electoral reform. We want a system where every vote counts, not just the ones in the right riding.

The stakes are high. As political scientists note, our current system is pushing us toward "policy lurch"—where each new government wastes billions undoing the previous government's work.

Systems like Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) or Single Transferable Vote (STV) can save our democracy. They maintain local representation while ensuring every vote matters.

Wake up, Canada. Our democracy is on life support, and proportional representation is the only treatment.

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Full speed towards a two-party system: How voting Liberal or Conservative in the 2025 Election Perpetuates a Broken Democracy. Go ahead downvote someone who's trying to get proportional representation

Facts:

1. Neither the Liberal Party nor Conservative Party support proportional representation.
2. To be Canadian is to be in favour of Democracy, and in a democracy everyone is deserving of proportionate representation. Therefore, not supporting proportional representation is anti-Canadian.
3. If you aren't voting for a party that supports proportional representation, you are a part of the problem.

The Math Doesn't Lie: We're Running Out of Time

With Duverger's Law in action, Canada is steadily moving toward a two-party system. Our effective number of parties has already declined to 2.76 in 2021 - compare this to the US at 2.00. Unless we implement proportional representation, our multi-party democracy will continue to erode until we're locked into the same polarized two-party deadlock that plagues the United States.

The Liberal Party's Long History of Broken Promises

• Liberals have campaigned on proportional representation since 1919, starting with Mackenzie King
• In 2015, Justin Trudeau promised over 1,800 times that it would be "the last election under first-past-the-post"
• After securing a false majority, Trudeau abandoned reform when he couldn't get his preferred non-proportional ranked ballot system
• In 2024, Trudeau admitted that Liberals were "deliberately vague" about electoral reform to appeal to PR advocates
• Mark Carney claims to be "open" to electoral reform while avoiding firm commitments - despite being an economist who should understand the mathematics of fair representation
• In 2024, 107 Liberal MPs (68.6% of Liberal MPs) voted against creating a National Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform

The Conservative Position: Status Quo Benefits Them

• Conservatives consistently favor maintaining FPTP
• Pierre Poilievre shows no interest in changing the system that could benefit his party with minority support
• The current electoral system enables single-party rule with a minority of votes
• Both major parties benefit from policy lurch, where each new government undoes the work of the previous one

The Democratic Deficit: Millions of Votes That Don't Matter

Our current system systematically discards millions of perfectly valid ballots. In the 2025 Ontario election, 51.6% of voters in Hastings-Lennox and Addington had no representation whatsoever in Queen's Park. This isn't a bug - it's a feature of winner-take-all systems like FPTP.

In a democracy, citizens are deserving of and entitled to representation in government, and only proportional representation can dependably deliver that.

The Only Viable Solution: Proportional Representation

Only proportional representation can ensure that every vote counts toward electing representatives. Both Mixed Member Proportional and Single Transferable Vote would maintain strong local representation while ensuring proportional outcomes.

This isn't a partisan issue - it's about fundamental democratic legitimacy. A system where roughly 50% of ballots make no difference to election outcomes cannot be called a full democracy, regardless of how well the elections themselves are administered.

Who Actually Supports Proportional Representation?

Only the Green Party🟢, NDP🟧, and Bloc Québécois⚜️ consistently support proportional representation.

When 76% of Canadians support electoral reform but both major parties refuse to deliver it, something is fundamentally broken with our system.

The Strategic Voting Trap

Many will argue that voting for PR-supporting parties will "split the vote." This circular logic perpetuates the very system that makes people feel their votes don't count. If you keep voting strategically for parties that refuse to implement PR, you're guaranteeing the system will never change.

The only wasted vote is one cast for a party that won't fix our democracy.

Downvote Away

I know this post will likely be downvoted by those invested in maintaining our broken system. But consider this: in 2025, do you want to be part of the solution or part of the problem? Are you willing to perpetuate a system where millions of votes make no difference, or will you stand for a democracy where every vote truly counts?

If democracy matters to you, then your vote should reflect that.

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Proportional representation means no more wasted votes and better representation for all.

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The community description explicitly states that this community is non-partisan. I think this is a very smart call because we'll need people with all sorts of different political ideologies to get onboard if we're ever going have a shot at implementing some form of PR.

However lately the sub seems to be filled with anti Poilievre articles that don't seem to have anything to so with electoral reform. I'm no fan of Poilievre, but in my experience electoral reform is already unfairly labeled as a "leftist" policy.

My opinion is that the most important thing we can do is help conservatives understand that PR is in their best interest just as much as it is for people on the left. It means the conservative movement no longer needs to live under one giant tent. It will be able to split into multiple parties that can then form coalitions on the issues that matter to them. Conservatives on the fringe benefit because at least they'll have some representation in parliament.

Anyway, any conservatives who are interested in electoral reform and come peek at this community will be immediately turned off by the content that's here. So please, let's try to keep posts focused on things relevant to electoral reform!

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.

This is just the reality with live with, and we are fighting for a better democracy - one where every vote counts.

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