I have quite a few creative ideas, but am too tired to write them down rn. I'll go the easy, lazy way (and write about more legislation ideas tomorrow):

Proportional representation like Germany. In every election, the voter votes for an individual and a party. The individual is chosen to represent the riding through STAR voting (my version). After all MPs are elected, to ensure proportional representation according to the party votes (the second vote that voters cast), individuals from party lists are put into parliament.

This way, we get riding representation and party representation.

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[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

            
              The progressive gov defunding of all Canadian media. There is nothing as destructive to a functional democracy as a media that is beholding to the government.

[–] el_muerte@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Being funded by government doesn't equate to being beholden to government.

I'd argue that the ownership of media by foreign billionaires, many of whom actually do dictate their direction, is far more harmful to our democracy.

[–] Damionsipher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You think a state funded media outlet, that has organizational control separations from direct government influence, is worse than corporate media? History and every level of academic inquiry very much disagrees .

[–] LoveCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Those aren't the only two options. Local media. Independent media. Crowd funded media. At least I know their bias is their own and not part of a larger agenda created in a board room.

And state funded media may have organizational control separations from overtly obvious DIRECT gov influence but if you dont believe that the gov has strong influence you must be naive - there are clear cases of the gov communications offices creating and sending out press statements even BEFORE an event has taken place so they can control the narrative. And as someone who has dealt with media directly with my own press releases, I know that the majority of reporters are happy to get a press release, change a few words to make it seem like they earned their paycheque and release it as given. The idea that there's 'independence' from gov control is an utter fallacy.

The other obvious control is on what the gov funded media does NOT report. There are quite a few members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery - all the big names are there: CBC, CTV, Global, CPAC, Canadian Press, Reuters - but there is only one Blacklock's Reporter outlet. And if you subscribe to Blacklock's you would be shocked to see the DAILY release of information that never hits the big name papers. Because they cover the events going on behind committee doors, the incredible tax wastage, the in-house decisions that show just how messed up some parts of our gov really are, but not the things that the gov wants the general public to see. Blacklock's is subscription only so they are beholding to no one - they can speak the truth without concern about losing funding.