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Will Trudeau end up regretting his decision to walk away from electoral reform? (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by grte@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but their attempt was in bad faith. They set up a committee that was doomed to fail. When the committee came up with some meaningful results, the Liberals ignored them and said "we can't agree on anything!"

Frankly, MMP is a great addition to a voting system, not a replacement. STV with a small number of MMP seats would be ideal, but straight STV would be a vast improvement.

This infographic is pretty straightforward.

[–] Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Nope. This is strictly a partisan construct.

MMP is the most proportional, also the one most likely to run into constitutional challenges, and the one most likely to fail in a referendum due simply to how difficult it is to explain to people not interested in electoral reform, ie, almost everyone.

If the NDP had agreed to go to ranked ballot or single transferable vote as at least an interim measure, something could have happened. NDP went for broke and rolled snake eyes.

Electoral reform is dead for at least the next 10-20 years. The Liberals are feeling burnt for trying. The NDP are as far from power as ever. The CPC just won't. And the Bloc will remain spoilers.