Author Topic: The Abandonment of Electoral Reform  (Read 1771 times)

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Offline TimG

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Re: The Abandonment of Electoral Reform
« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2017, 01:51:31 pm »
This was a very crass move by the government and their reasons were even worse.  Nonsensical garbage about "no consensus"....   they never tried for any sort of consensus, nor mentioned that they were trying for one.
Surveys support the government on this point. Canadians may like the idea of electoral reform in abstract but when they are presented with concrete proposals there is no consensus and often FPTP wins as everyone's second choice.

More importantly, there is unbridgeable partisan divide where supporters of different parties prefer differ systems. This means that choosing a system favored by one set of partisans would likely be automatically opposed by others. No amount of hand wringing will change this.

BTW: giving up a majority on the parliamentary committee was an attempt to create cross party consensus, however, that committee could not find any outside of abstract bromides.
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