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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I consider it a dysfunction that "letting IRV win" was blocked.
Understand the point. Definitely don't see it as a dealbreaker for democracy. As a green voter, possible election assistant, possible candidate... I could try to win a seat under IRV, knowing that message/platform matters more than manipulation of "vote wasting". Platform could still piss off oligarchy that backs different parties, but to voters, saving the world could make Green a 2nd choice, despite their media propaganda supporting oligarchy and against the alternate oligarchy.
Under PR, if the green party accepted me as one of 3 accepted candidates, and I got the most votes out of the Green party, and the Green party got say 20% total of the vote (threshold for a seat), then I could win that seat. Our party's 3 candidates would be covering a larger riding that used to hold 5 candidates, and so personal campaigning would be more challenging.
There's a matter of fringe positions that would get represented under PR. Fringe can be avant-garde good, or it can be "Covid doesn't exist and we should all get it for our own good". I think PR would be an advantage for our common oligarchist/US/Israel accepted disinformation group think, in getting representation not indebted to CIA, but that is independents rather than parties and their leaders and every parliamentarian swearing a loyalty (their votes) to party leader system. Maybe parties that allow candidates to represent them, give more power to the diversity of candidates, and their opinions, and allow for some independence on CIA "must haves", but my impression of PR is that it is a much stronger party hierarchy system. Diversity on "alternative medicine" can be allowed, only because it is not a critical (except for Pharma dominance) CIA issue.