Month: February 2017

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Comment on Canadian Dog Whistle Politics or #ProportionalRepresentation? by DAVID

You still need better citations.

My sources come from email interactions with FairVoteCanada and Antony Hodgson. FVC focused on “pure” PR systems, of which MMP still very much is. And that is what Trudeau rejected and even used as evidence for the other sides unwillingness to compromise. This then led to the “lack of consensus”, but if there were a hybrid between a pure PR and a pure majoritarian system that would tie Canada to the mast to make sure its FN peoples were more often swing voters and thereby better able to hold Canada accountable for turning from its past mistreatment of them then it’d be worth exploring…

Compromises need to happen and depend on the circumstances… If Canada gives too much power to the PM of the party in power then it makes sense to push a mixed system that’d still let him and his party tend to be in power but also tie him and his party to the mast to do right by FN peoples who’s rights have been trampled in part due to the use of majoritarian systems and the fickleness of white or middle class guilt over racism.