VAUGHAN, Ont. - Liberal Leader Mark Carney says his government would double Canada’s rate of residential housing construction over the next decade to nearly 500,000 new homes per year.
I understand the commendable instinct to give another chance, but this isn’t about a one-time broken promise - it’s about a century-long pattern. Liberals have promised proportional representation since 1919, starting with Mackenzie King.
The 2015 promise wasn’t just casually broken - Trudeau literally admitted last year that Liberals were “deliberately vague” to appeal to electoral reform advocates while never intending to implement proportional representation.
Just last year, 107 Liberal MPs (68.6% of their caucus) voted against even creating a Citizens’ Assembly to study electoral reform, despite 76% of Canadians supporting it.
This isn’t about partisan politics - it’s about our declining democracy. Canada’s effective number of parties is down to 2.76, showing we’re sliding toward an American-style two-party system under Duverger’s Law.
In a democracy, citizens deserve representation. Every election under FPTP means millions of perfectly valid votes are discarded. How many more decades should we wait?
I understand the commendable instinct to give another chance, but this isn’t about a one-time broken promise - it’s about a century-long pattern. Liberals have promised proportional representation since 1919, starting with Mackenzie King.
The 2015 promise wasn’t just casually broken - Trudeau literally admitted last year that Liberals were “deliberately vague” to appeal to electoral reform advocates while never intending to implement proportional representation.
Just last year, 107 Liberal MPs (68.6% of their caucus) voted against even creating a Citizens’ Assembly to study electoral reform, despite 76% of Canadians supporting it.
This isn’t about partisan politics - it’s about our declining democracy. Canada’s effective number of parties is down to 2.76, showing we’re sliding toward an American-style two-party system under Duverger’s Law.
In a democracy, citizens deserve representation. Every election under FPTP means millions of perfectly valid votes are discarded. How many more decades should we wait?
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Just a Canadian concerned about democracy!
Here are some more links: Simple things you can do to grow the proportional representation movement.
What is your solution
I don’t know the particular solution to the housing crisis (nor did I insinuate I have one).
But the solution to the millions of perfectly valid ballots being tossed out every single Canadian election, is proportional representation.
I’ve been repeating this: Simple things you can do to grow the proportional representation movement.
Perhaps after we get PR, we can get actually effective governments, that respond even more deeply to the people’s needs.