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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 36 points 3 months ago (9 children)

How I read this poll: 55% of Canadians want a party to the political left of the Conservatives to win.

How our FPTP system reads this poll: 70% of ridings want the Conservatives to win.

[–] Choosenewagain@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish Trudeau had kept his promise for election reform, would come in handy for the party now!

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Easy. He just has to open the constitution to make those reforms. Nothing bad ever happens when we try to change the constitution. All the provinces always agree and there is definitely no lingering constitutional issues that we haven't been able to resolve in more than four decades.

He shouldn't have made that promise. He should have been aware that electoral reforms would need to change the constitution and that every time we try do that, the country nearly implodes. So we just keep status quo until the constitutional crisis will be big enough that we can't ignore it anymore. I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe he thought we would all forget about it.

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