Electoral reform is the biggest issue we need to tackle. Without proportional representation, Canada will continue its rightward march to polarizing American style politics.
We need to keep fighting to make the Liberals and NDP choose Canada over party.
The last term was an excellent example of it not quite being two party, with the NDP pushing a liberal minority for some significant gains. It’s not nearly as good or democratic as it could have been, but I think it’s important for us to remember what ground we do still have. This election could be an opportunity to galvanized support for proportional representation with so many people voting liberal out of perceived necessity.
It continuously astounds me than the NDP and Greens don’t make more noise about electoral reform.
Agreed, but that just means we have to. Democracy is strongest when we’re engaged in more than just elections. Check out https://www.fairvote.ca/ to get involved.
My concern with this trend is that without proportional representation, it will eventually metastasize into an American style two party system as the left is forced into ABC voting every election.
Wtf CBC. Way to dump fuel on all the transphobia
First past the post tends to produce adversarial politics, whereas proportional representation trends to produce collaborative politics.
Canada used to be better about that because we had more minority governments, but things have been moving closer to American style two party.
I completely agree that the divisiveness at a community level is also a problem, but electoral reform is a concrete thing we can advocate for that will improve this.
The majority of Canadians support proportional representation, so the barrier is getting politicians to put down short sighted self interest.