Fairvote Canada
What is This Group is About?
De Quoi Parle ce Groupe?
The unofficial non-partisan Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.
Le mouvement non officiel et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.
🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.
- A Simple Guide to Electoral Systems
- What is First-Past-The-Post (FPTP)?
- What is Proportional Representation (PR)?
- What is a Citizens’ Assembly?
- Why referendums Aren't Necessary
- The 219 Corrupt MPs Who Voted Against Advancing Electoral Reform
Related Communities/Communautés Associées
Resources/Ressources
Official Organizations/Organisations Officielles
- List of Canadian friends of Democracy Bluesky
- Fair Vote Canada: Bluesky
- Fair Voting BC: Bluesky
- Charter Challenge for Fair Voting: Bluesky
- Electoral Renewal Canada: Bluesky
- Vote16: Bluesky
- Longest Ballot Committee: Bluesky
- ~~Make Votes Equal / Make Seats Match Votes~~
- Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (IRV for municipal elections)
We're looking for more moderators, especially those who are of French and indigenous identities.
Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.
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Please, anything but full PR. Please. In a polarized landscape PR is leading to increasingly bad outcomes (Israel, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland etc.) In a PR system, the Far Right would be running France.
This is not happening because the citizens of those countries are less good than Canadians.
Austria doesn’t have an extremist government, Poland’s culture on issues is different, Israel’s democracy is flawed as the foundation of the country is dubious. If the majority of the people want fascism it’s going to happen in any electoral system, the 2 big parties are not immune to that corrupting influence look at how Donald Trump and Robert Mugabe reduced their parties to. Winner-take-all systems allow an extremist party to win a majority of the seats with only a minority of the vote thus having full legislative control.
Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom are actually much more polarized under first-past-the-post than say Ireland, Denmark and Switzerland. As proportional representation actually decreases polarization as the politics are much friendlier and it’s much less of us vs them since they’re more than 2 parties vying for our votes.
You also conveniently left out Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland in your argument.
Sure, but Kickl almost came to power in large part as a result of general dissatisfaction with politics in Austrai because... You guessed it, PR leads to not particularly effective government.
You can disagree with the creation of Israel etc but I fail to see how that means that we don't have to pay attention to their experience with PR.
So the Polish culture is just inherently racist and tends to autocracy? I really hate this line of argument, it's the same sort of stuff that has been historically used dismiss the humanity of Black and Indigenous people.
Not saying FPTP is perfect. 2 party systems tend not to be great either. That's why I'm really happy that Canada has a wide mix, from NDP to the Bloc, to the Conservatives.
Yes... And you haven't pointed out all the successful countries that use FPTP, or do you really think there are no successful countries with FPTP?