Liberals never wanted to “make every vote count.”… Electoral reform has become a bonbon offered at election. As far back as 1919, Liberals have campaigned on the promise of proportional representation - eviltoast
Broken trust on electoral reform
policyoptions.irpp.org
What’s the point of spending millions of dollars on consultations when the government ignores the findings?
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    If we assume he knows what there’s to know about the pros and cons of the most common electoral systems (he might not), and if we assume he’s serious when he says we need to do huge changes to the country at a breakneck speed, and if he believes he can get a majority in a snap election, changing the electoral system would be at the very end of those changes. Reason being that PR would make it harder for him to do those changes. If he’s resolved to change the electoral system, that’ll come at the end of his term. Even if he was going good faith about it.