IIUC, the British "Labour" party is nowadays anti-labour and mis-named. One of the nice things that Trudeau did is to insist that the capital-L Liberal Party of Canada must first be lowercase-L liberal, not a "centrist" party as led by Ignatieff. You can't claim to be "liberal" and also be in favour of the Drug War. You can't be an anti-abortion "liberal" — those people were ejected from the party.
What do you think of the Ontario Greens? It seems they support both the environment and the retention of wealth.
My daughter's smartphone has a lovely road-mapping app that uses pre-downloaded maps to avoid data charges. If you zoom in, it doesn't make the town names bigger, but rather just shows more of them. I suppose there might be an option someplace, but the out-of-the-box functionality does not match my poor eyesight.
FPTP is the system used nationally in Canada, although Ontario recently passed a law allowing municipal elections to use ranked ballots — which don't really help with the "lurching policy" problem where one majority government is followed by a majority for the other party, causing a huge policy shift from a small number of voters changing their minds.
The main problem with Prop. Rep. is that it is a pocketbook issue for MPs but a good-government issue for everyone else. Liberal MPs who vote to change the voting system are potentially signing a death-warrant for their own careers, since Trudeau's majority is undeserved just like Harper's was before him, so a "correct" counting of the votes would lead to many fewer Liberal MPs than we have at the moment. But they all stood under the Liberal banner to get elected, and that banner had electoral reform as a core policy. Canadians do sometimes put patriotism before greed, so maybe something will actually happen this time.
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Date: 2016-06-12 12:18 am (UTC)What do you think of the Ontario Greens? It seems they support both the environment and the retention of wealth.
My daughter's smartphone has a lovely road-mapping app that uses pre-downloaded maps to avoid data charges. If you zoom in, it doesn't make the town names bigger, but rather just shows more of them. I suppose there might be an option someplace, but the out-of-the-box functionality does not match my poor eyesight.
FPTP is the system used nationally in Canada, although Ontario recently passed a law allowing municipal elections to use ranked ballots — which don't really help with the "lurching policy" problem where one majority government is followed by a majority for the other party, causing a huge policy shift from a small number of voters changing their minds.
The main problem with Prop. Rep. is that it is a pocketbook issue for MPs but a good-government issue for everyone else. Liberal MPs who vote to change the voting system are potentially signing a death-warrant for their own careers, since Trudeau's majority is undeserved just like Harper's was before him, so a "correct" counting of the votes would lead to many fewer Liberal MPs than we have at the moment. But they all stood under the Liberal banner to get elected, and that banner had electoral reform as a core policy. Canadians do sometimes put patriotism before greed, so maybe something will actually happen this time.