 Mulcair Promises Proportional Representation If NDP Wins Next ElectionPolitical | 207089 hits | Apr 06 8:42 am | Posted by: ShepherdsDog  If the NDP forms Canada's next government, Thomas Mulcair says he'll put an end to majority governments elected by a minority of the population.
In an op-ed published in Common Ground magazine this week, Mulcair promises that if the NDP has its wa...Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Funny how when Chretien won his second majority with only of the vote, no one cried and bitched about it.
Or how people's memory fade over time.
Australia has a partial prop rep system that seems to work very well. For the lower house you list your candidates in order of preference.
If not, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and the other preferences on his or her ballot papers are redistributed to the other candidates. This continues until one candidate has 50% plus one, at which point he or she is elected for that seat.
The Aussies also elect their senate. You can either just vote for a party, or the same STV system as the lower house.
This certainly doesn't seem to have led to minority parliaments or coalitions. And they seem to have figured out their senate problem without causing gridlock.
NDP will end up back in 3rd place where they belong. His promises carry no weight.
That the thing right there. All the Dippers are doing is trying to cover their bases and maintain some relevancy because they know that the Liberals are going to clean their clocks in most of the Ontario ridings, and a lot of the Quebec ones too, that the Dippers got in the last election. Spouting a bunch of pro-PR nonsense is just them stunting as usual in order to shore up as much of the puny and essentially irrelevant freak demographics that they get too much of their support from.
Obviously he never wants to be PM....this system is horrible. It'll be coalition after coalition government with fringe parties being king makers. Look at Israel and Italy.
No shit.
Good to see he has already conceded the election, even before it got started.
While he is at it, why doesn't the beard just go full stupid and offer
every voter a million dollars if he wins the election.
That should get him a few votes.
Funny how when Chretien won his second majority with only of the vote, no one cried and bitched about it.
Or how people's memory fade over time.
Yeah, and watch how selectively their memories will "fade" again when the next federal left-wing govt wins a majority with substantially less than 50% of the vote.
Funny how when Chretien won his second majority with only 38% of the vote, no one cried and bitched about it.
Nobody on the left you mean. That's all we heard from the right until Harper came to power.
That said, Shep is right. Proportional Representation will be an unaccountable mess where fringe groups wield ridiculously disproportionate power and policy will be made through closed-door backroom deals.
I'd say that FPTP is a source of some voter apathy, simply because people in ridings all over the country feel, "Why bother voting, so-so and so is just going to get in anyways." And for conservatives living in large urban centres or liberals/dippers living in rural areas, it often is the case.
the STV system proposed in BC (larger riding with two reps).
The system that BC voters rejected
Most of you are in the West. I'm in Southern Ontario and vote-for-vote, I get less representation that any of you do but it's the only way to have a truly national government.