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Libs and NDPers must act boldly by reviving electoral reform (rabble.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by grte to c/canadapolitics

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[–] Vex_Detrause 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a talk a few years ago regarding the first pass to post. What happened to that? It was Trudeau too. (Serious question)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did a study, couldn't decide which system was better, didn't think they could get the provinces on board with it (which is probably right), so they scraped it.

Truth is, any of the proposed systems (while not perfect) is still better than FPTP

[–] bradbeattie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A little more subtle than that. The ERRE came back with a report (https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/ERRE/Reports/RP8655791/errerp03/errerp03-e.pdf) whose #1 recommendation was adopting any system that's roughly proportional (e.g. MMP, STV, etc).

The Committee recommends that the Government should, as it develops a new electoral system, use the Gallagher index in order to minimize the level of distortion between the popular will of the electorate and the resultant seat allocations in Parliament. The government should seek to design a system that achieves a Gallagher score of 5 or less.

But instead of moving forward with a proportional system (which would impact the number of seats the liberals win by way of voters voting strategically for the Liberals), they instead released My democracy.ca. A push poll if there ever was one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good info, thanks for the breakdown and link

[–] bradbeattie 1 points 1 year ago

I tried summarizing the history of the whole thing with relevant links in https://iscanadafair.ca/2015/. What surprised me while getting all the context together was that basically the exact same thing happened in 1909: https://iscanadafair.ca/1909-1923/.

[–] dubyakay 3 points 1 year ago

We have FPTP currently. And it sucks.