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Offline JMT

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #840 on: November 22, 2020, 12:41:00 pm »
It seems waldo and JT think Canadians are too lazy, unfocused and uncaring than say Australians, were voting is mandatory and STV means their vote has consequences regardless of how they voted. Maybe that is because of a system that hands absolute power to a party that gets less than 40% of the vote and they feel their vote doesn’t mean all that much.

Face it, FPP isn’t about democracy, it’s about power and the party in power isn’t going to allow a system that will reduce that power.

To be clear, the Liberals wanted STV, and could have pushed it through on their own. The Conservatives weren't in favour of a change, and the NDP wanted MMP. With no agreement and no movement, a change to STV, which I would have liked, would have been seen as totally disingenuous and self serving.