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Despite what Canada's nation hating extreme right would have you believe.

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[–] Harpsist@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No body said it was the best country - for a citizen - no no no. Its the best country for giant corporations!

Tired of wood, wetlands, and natives being of the way of your accident waiting to happen pipe line? Go Canada!

Don't want to commit actual genocide on your native population? Rather isolate them in small communities then poison them with water unfit for even the most hearty of a animals? Go Canada!

Your wealthy friends want to make billions buying and selling green protected land? Go Ontario!

Are the homeless an eye sore to your wealthy friends visiting? Don't worry, here in Canada we have 6 months of winter to clean up those unwanted eye sores.

[–] Rocket@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Its the best country for giant corporations!

So, like, pieces of paper?

By what mechanism was the paper the giant corporation is written on able to confer the list?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So who are you voting for next election?

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As someone from the USA it's sad to see our friend to the north make the same mistakes that helped get us to the sad state we are in ourselves.

[–] mindcruzer@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least your country actually has real business competition and your per capita GDP is going up instead of down

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Annoyingly, the rightwingnut constituency in your country has been increasingly exporting their bad ideas.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys can refuse the shipments but you don't.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

We're trying, but our efforts are being overwhelmed.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

An asteroid in the outer solar system. If we vote hard enough to have it win in our broken FPTP system. it'll alter course and end this horrible timeline.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

If we had a proportional representation system we'd have the majority of the House of Commons controlled through by an agreement agreement between the Liberals and the NDP. Exactly the situation we have now except the seats would be directly owned by the parties instead of representing communities.

Proportional representation is the preferred system for people that understand politics via spreadsheets while completely ignoring power dynamics.

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Give me some STV! MMP seems to work well for NZΒΉ. Electoral reform won't fix everything, but it will allow a path for more adaptability in politics at the very least.


ΒΉ I'm also okay with AV (instant runoff). Is it perfect? No, but let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. AV at least overcomes the spoiler effect, and would allow more diversity of parties. AV does tend to encourage coalitions formed around a centrist party with broad support (probably the Liberals in Canadian federal politics) as they will tend to be the 2nd or 3rd pick, but the balance of other parties in any resulting coalition would tend to drive things. Plus, without the spoiler effect of FPTP there can always be a competitor for the centre. Basically. FPTP is the worst, and although I have my preferences, less bad is still improvement. Also, AV can always serve as a palate cleanser for full STV.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

We need an electoral system that doesn't take power from a large party that most people voted for and give it to a tiny fringe party that almost none voted for. Look at what's happening in Israel. The most extreme party to get any seats is calling the shots because they hold the balance of power. Wouldn't Canada be fun if the christofascists or tankies were calling the shots?