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Hahaha - funny coincidence but I used to be really passionate about ProRep, to the point I even annoyed political science majors. I’ve noticed Canadian democra
by hluska 5y ago
Hahaha - funny coincidence but I used to be really passionate about ProRep, to the point I even annoyed political science majors.
I’ve noticed Canadian democracy has an interesting trait and at this point, I don’t know whether it’s a bug or a feature. Our political parties are in favour of ProRep when they’re in opposition, but the second they’re in power, ProRep is one of those really bad swears they just can’t repeat. This is utterly baffling…
- pixelgeek 5y agoNot really. They can't use their usual playbook in most proportional representation systems. Especially the Liberals. They survive by frightening Ontario progressives into voting for them. If those people knew that they could vote, NDP or Green and have those votes count then the Liberals would ne in a significant amount of trouble. As would the Conservatives. If social conservatives could move their votes to a social conservative party they mostly would I suspect