Okay, so their approach to disenfranchised voters:

1. No actual voting change.
2. No voting reform.
3. No enforcement of existing laws forcing companies to give people 8 hours to vote.
4. We'll give them more days they can vote on! Sure that's the problem.

Eat the rich.

I got excited for a moment.

Yea not reform in the least. It's already really fucking easy to vote here.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, still shame in you.

I'm tired of this fucking lie, but what am I going to do, vote against it?

I wish he was even considering changing FPTP though. According to the article, the changes they're exploring are pretty lackluster.

I wish they'd see the writing on the wall and just throw together a ranked ballot system before we end up with Premier PP. The last thing we need is that fucking capital-fascist in charge. I'd still be pissed that it took being directly in Trudeau's interest before he finally followed through, but I'd still rather it done than not.

Go read the article and you'll realize it's the journalist calling it a reform, it isn't, it's improvement to the current system.

A minority government has been in power for all of Canada's best achievements. This isn't a surprise. The NDP would seem short-sighted in the office and bludgeoned in the press, but as the conscience of the Liberals they have the power to push them for our good.

It's an interesting one-two punch to the cruelty and PR of the Cons. The Libs can defend in the press and play victim to the Dems' horrible machinations - insert dramatic swoon here - and the Cons have to fight both fronts. Accidentally, while no one's looking, Canadians' long-term happiness improves in every way that isn't American Rat-race cool.

The best time would have been on the first day of the administration, after finishing the broken and lame TPP and NAFTA2, equalizing pay in the fed, and then ... aw shit, pandemic. Sure there was a lot of noodling around fixing Harper's multi-year fustercluck, but the timeline before the pandemic was kinda tossed at that point. You remember how hard it was to get ignorant hillbillies to actually vaccinate, right?

The second-best time for non-mortal concerns may be today. Glad to see it's finally getting a look.

Hasn't made much difference in Australia. Much of the last 50 years has been a coalition between the right-wing Liberals and the right-wing, rural grievance, National party.

Along with different voting systems come different voting patterns. We could easily end up with coalition of the CPC , Bloc, and similar regional grievance parties.

Some people seem to think that a change to a proportional system would shut out the CPC. There is absolutely no guarantee that that would be the case.

Likud in Israel has little popular support, something like 30% in the last election, but they managed to cobble together an assortment of extremist parties to gain power. It's not much different in Italy, Hungary, Türkiye etc, where various fascist parties have gained and maintain control.

Just to be clear, I'm not oppose to change. I'm pointing out that while the voting system is important, having an engaged and educated voter is importanter.

Did you read the article? They're just making it easier to vote (3 day voting window, expanding mail in votes, etc.) they're not doing any serious changes

Well if most Canadians don't want a conservative government isn't it in our interest? Doing Ford was re-elected in Ontario by 19% of the electorate...