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CTV News also made the same call.

Majority or minority gov tbd


Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney take in the results in Ottawa. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

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[–] AlexisBlackbird@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] walktheplank@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

As someone who lives in poverty thanks to my fellow Canadians not standing up for people like me and ignoring the issues that affect my family the most, I will continue to add that first Nations, minorities and people with disabilities live in a fascist state right now in Canada. No matter the government and that needs to change. Now.

Only the people of the country standing up to the parties and politicians will change this. As you have pointed out electoral reform is already supported by the vast majority of Canadians and has a very strong voice that keeps getting stronger. It is a major issue for many Canadians as it should be.

Who mentions the first Nations and the disabled when they speak or act within our government? Who is fighting for the rights of those with the smallest voices? How many Canadians even know these issues exist for us? Who feeds my kids when I cannot because my government and the people of my country couldn't care less about us the most vulnerable members of your society? Who cares for their health needs because I can no longer can?Who makes sure they grow up healthy and strong and smart and not a drain on society as a whole? Me. But I can't do that because I live below poverty for a single individual in my province but I have 3 kids simply because I developed an illness that broke my body.

This doesn't need to be a single issue win but if we make it that, we ensure the country continues down a path towards fascism and American style politics no matter the reform to our voting system. You get your single issue reform and the country keeps on ticking like it always has. Smashing the little guy into bits. That's fascism and it's as much a part of our country as it is the Americans we deride so much.

People matter. If you watch the Americans right now they're at one another's throats. We aren't far off that in our own country. Stand up for the little guy while you fight.

That's Canadian.