Also, you think that under PR we’ll still have Cons, Libs and NDP, maybe Green. But under PR we’ll have an extremist conservative group like the New Blue and True Conservative Party winning seats. The left will get even more splintered. And the fringe right wing part will hold power in a coalition.
The people that feel the most ripped off are those in split ridings, where the Conservatives win because the NDP and Liberals split the vote.
Lefties that move to heavily conservative ridings, and vice versa, understand that the majority of people vote in a particular way out of their own interest and aren’t as mad. Having smaller ridings would help with this, move from 124 to 248 would be great as there would be fewer ridings with a split vote.
You’re arguing against smaller ridings! Calm down, touch grass.
*every vote must count *
This is why we need smaller riding, about 30,000 in size. Not the 100,000 to 120,000 that we have now. In a 30 day election a candidate can knock on about a 1000 doors a day, a little under a hundred doors an hour, 12 hours a day. It’s important to talk to people, understand what they need and want. Few people vote today, because ridings are so big.
Our current Parliamentary system is hundred of years old, it survived much. Yes it needs fixing, but not a complete overhaul. I’m not a revolutionary, as most people aren’t. BAV fixes split votes, almost no change from how things are done now. No need for a whole new system if BAV fixes split votes.
Countries with PR arn’t doing as great as you think politically. Right wing governments have popped up everywhere. BAV plus smaller ridings solve most problems, such as vote splitting. Perfection is the enemy of getting it done.
BAV seems like it solves 80% or current problems without being much of a change, that’s why I like it. Everything else seems like a push too far, so it never gets implemented.
All donations to political parties should be illegal and considered bribes. All money to political parties should come from membership fees.
The other solution to this problem is to double or triple the amount of ridings from 124 to 248 or 372. Let communities actually pick people that represent them. Ridings are now at 120,000 people almost. Should be at 60,000 or 30,000.
The solution we need is to let people choose more than one candidate on a ballot. Don’t even need ranking.
Thanks for the work, but too preachy, it’s no one person’s fault. I don’t want to have a two party system like in the USA, that is what happens when parties drop out.
We have a FPTP system that is morally wrong, the chicken shit courts refuse to pass judgement and rule against it. The Conservatives and Liberals don’t want to change it, know that’s the only way they’ll get majorities, even if occasionally there parties will have to lose big.
The simplest solution is give people a plurality of votes, pick as many candidates on the ballet as you want.
Any important department will them to fuck off with the A.I., but Medicare patients will be stuck with it. It’s a slow moving disaster that any average person sees coming.