CANADA: A Sense of Peril

[dewline]

Listening to this at the moment while resigning myself to going to work at another minwage-plus-4-percent day job tomorrow morning.

Quoth Dave Meslin:

"What's disrespectful about our voting system is that 60 per cent can vote against a particular party, then that party cannot only win, but win a majority of the seats. In almost every Western democracy in the world, if a single party takes complete control of a legislature against the will of a majority of voters, it's called a coup. And in Canada we call it an election."

I agree and yet Canada is trapped right now between the impulse this belief creates and the knowledge that the new fascist international is a real threat ready to pounce.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/canadians-may-or-may-not-elect-the-government-they-want-1.5282911

Comments

[sabotabby]

I think they made it clear that the major obstacle is that if power continually shifts between the two parties that benefit from this, there's no incentive or means to change it (within the electoral framework anyway).

[jo]

I hate crap like that because it completely misrepresents how our system works. So much BS.

[dewline]

That is one of the key factors at the heart of this problem.

[notasupervillain]

I just want a functional government. I liked FPTP when I thought it worked well enough to make a government that could function. It seems less ideal now, so I'm ready to try something else.