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Yeah, the stated reason is pretty much BS. There's nothing stopping the government from saying "A party must have 5% of the vote to be awarded any PR/list seat
by jamie_ca 8y ago
Yeah, the stated reason is pretty much BS.
There's nothing stopping the government from saying "A party must have 5% of the vote to be awarded any PR/list seats" in order to keep the fringe parties from grabbing individual seats here and there. BC just released their suggestions for an October referendum on reforming provincial elections, and that was part of all three suggested systems.
- namibj 8y agoFor reference, that's basically the case in Germany, introduced after remembering horrible bikeshedding in the 1920s.
- JamisonM 8y agoI don't think it would be much of a challenge to get a party committed to explicit racism to 8 or 10 percent in Canada with a charismatic leader and decent organizing. If lightning strikes once and you get an MP into parliament after that as a private member that MP is going to get a lot of media attention, it will immediately change politics because with large parties member discipline is important whereas in an MMP system a party that has no hope of ever winning it all has the reverse incentive - they are 100% committed to whipping up their "base" for their pet issue.