Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result - eviltoast
  • voluble@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    One of the first things Trudeau did as Prime Minister was break the top-line platform promise that got him elected - he promised Canadians that the 2015 federal election would be the last one under the first past the post system. So I’d say from the standpoint of democracy, he had an absolutely horrible start.

    Of course he went on to reap the benefits of the imbalanced first past the post system for two subsequent federal elections, one of which he called unnecessarily during the pandemic in order to consolidate power for his party.

    I think him and his party have been vaporware since day one.

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      5 months ago

      Yep. I will never vote for him again for this reason. I used to vote strategically based on my current riding, but I’m just straight NDP now.

      This was a concrete and clear promise, and he 100% broke it and didn’t even try. The Liberal candidate would have basically always been my 2nd choice in a ranked system.

      Now they get nothing. I hope it was worth it.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        and he 100% broke it and didn’t even try

        He actually did try. He wanted Ranked Choice but when feedback came for proportional, he ran away.

      • AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Yup, haven’t voted liberal since he bathed in the applause of thousands, then flipped us all the bird when he got into office.