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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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List of Canadian friends of Democracy Bluesky
Fair Vote Canada: Bluesky
Fair Voting BC: Bluesky
Charter Challenge for Fair Voting: Bluesky
Electoral Renewal Canada: Bluesky
Vote16: Bluesky
Longest Ballot Committee: Bluesky
~~Make Votes Equal / Make Seats Match Votes~~
Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (IRV for municipal elections)

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What If We Put Forward an e-Petition For Electoral Reform? (www.ourcommons.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by SaturdayMorning to c/fairvote

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An e-petition will require 5 citizens/residents and an MP to be created. Once it is approved the petition can start collecting signatures. A minimum of 500 signatures is required to have the petition presented to the House of Commons.

The process is depicted here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/Documents/poster-e.pdf

Perhaps organization such as Fair Vote Canada can draft the petition and find an MP who will be willing to sponsor it (most likely a Liberal, Green or NDP MP). I will be willing to put my name forward if Fair Vote Canada can't find 5 citizens to start the petition (but I am sure they can).

Just a thought.

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[–] bradbeattie 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/ePetitions/Responses/421/e-616/421-01221_PCO_E.pdf

[–] SaturdayMorning 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for jogging my memory. I believe I was one of those 360K Canadians and I was excited about proportional (I believe it was called ranking ballots back then?). Now, the interest in proportional vote may or may not have changed among Canadians after 8 years but it's worth investigating by organization such as Fairvote Canada.

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

I had to refresh my memory on how that all played out. This article sums it up well. The Liberals were/are too fat on power to ever seriously consider voter reform.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-electoral-reform-biggest-regret-1.7426407

[–] altasshet 4 points 2 days ago

Which is wild to me. Pushing through voter reform would win then the next election, and limit the damage when they inevitably fuck it up after that. But we can't have long term thinking, I guess.

[–] Sunshine 2 points 2 days ago

Good idea! Hey don’t leave out Bloc Québécois⚜️, they have consistently been shown to support proportional representation too!