Month: March 2017

Canada has already given too much power to the PM of the Party in power; this is precisely why, looking south, we need PR.

The ERRÉ process was not driven by FVC, in fact it was (likely) deliberately driven around FVC. They made a submission that was ignored like everyone else’s. Including the committee.

This blog is laden with citations in the resources section:

You can find and read for yourself the ERRÉ report (and those that preceeded it in recent decades) here:

https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/pr-4-canada-resources/13-canadian-commissions-assemblies-reports-recommended-pr/

Or watch all the video or read the transcripts for the ERRÉ process here. https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/erre-q-meetings-transcripts/

The ERRÉ Committee chose to compromise: their recommendation was PR. Mr. Trudeau could have chosen any he liked ~ including Mr. Dion’s made-for-Liberal’s P3 system ~ and tweaked it to favour his party as much as possible. He chose not to. He could have chosen PR without a referendum, or a confirming referendum after a few elections.

There is still time for him to relent; we might still get PR in place before 2019. If he chooses to hang tough in spite of the foolishness of driving away not just the strategic voting crowd, but his actual Liberal base, I doubt there will be a subsequent LPC majority. There might, however be a CPC majority.

Sorry, the left was willing to compromise. NDP was willing to step back from its decade (or more) support for MMP.

Even if Mr. Trudeau doesn’t understand it (which I don’t believe for a minute) there are plenty of clever folk in his party who might explain it to him. It seems Mr. Trudeau is not interested in long term stability and collaboration. He much prefers the old fashioned kind of absolute power his father wielded back in the day. When Justin Trudeau threw his hat in the Liberal leadership race, his entire campaign was “I’m listening” on everything but electoral reform. He is simply not buying. Which is why we must insist.