LOL! This is no different than anyone who always votes the same way because that’s how their parents always voted. Under FPTP, it’s critical to always vote for the lesser of the evils. If the Liberals are the lesser of the evils in the future, I will be voting for them. If it’s the CPC or some other party, then I’ll vote for that party. While many Canadians aren’t 100% happy with Carney right now, polls show the majority are still very glad they didn’t vote for Poilievre (or the NDP).
One thing that would help is PR voting. This would greatly reduce the number of majority governments we get, because voting for a small party wouldn’t feel like a wasted vote. Minority governments force the various parties to work together and have some power to keep each other in check. Majority governments result in one party having dictatorial power.
Another help is to have the ability to recall politicians if some percentage (perhaps around 66% to 70%) of Canadians want to remove them. That way, if they don’t govern the way they campaigned, they could be removed without having to wait the entire four years.
I’ve seen a lot of comments like this on here that typically parrot strategic voting talking points with little evidence. This is understandable, since most people only learn about FPTP because they are rightfully dissatisfied with it, but frustrating since this seems to always be conflated with “vote out of fear.”
There were many secure NDP ridings that had about a zero percent risk of being flipped Con that were flipped Liberal because of this mentality, and many that were flipped Con because Liberal voters split that vote. As we’ve seen, a majority Liberal government is hardly a lesser of two evils as it is portrayed here since they have implemented pretty much everything Cons wanted, with the only benefit really being their continued appropriation of social justice talking points to present some sort of moral superiority. They’re passing internet surveillance and censorship legislation, they’ve cut environmental protections and are eroding First Nations and indigenous sovereignty in service of fossil fuels and other extractive, destructive industries, they’re funneling public wealth into private capital without addressing the inadequacies of any of our social welfare systems or the cost of living. What exactly is lesser? It’s not like they’re doing anything for trans people besides ignoring that they’re still being targeted for genocide (or that Canadians were about to elect an openly genocidal candidate just before Trump won Libs the election).
Could you actually produce evidence that demonstrates that the outcome of this election proves that maintaining strong NDP ridings would have won Cons the election or that a minority Con (or Liberal) parliament would have been in any substantial way worse than a majority Liberal one?
LOL! This is no different than anyone who always votes the same way because that’s how their parents always voted. Under FPTP, it’s critical to always vote for the lesser of the evils. If the Liberals are the lesser of the evils in the future, I will be voting for them. If it’s the CPC or some other party, then I’ll vote for that party. While many Canadians aren’t 100% happy with Carney right now, polls show the majority are still very glad they didn’t vote for Poilievre (or the NDP).
One thing that would help is PR voting. This would greatly reduce the number of majority governments we get, because voting for a small party wouldn’t feel like a wasted vote. Minority governments force the various parties to work together and have some power to keep each other in check. Majority governments result in one party having dictatorial power.
Another help is to have the ability to recall politicians if some percentage (perhaps around 66% to 70%) of Canadians want to remove them. That way, if they don’t govern the way they campaigned, they could be removed without having to wait the entire four years.
I’ve seen a lot of comments like this on here that typically parrot strategic voting talking points with little evidence. This is understandable, since most people only learn about FPTP because they are rightfully dissatisfied with it, but frustrating since this seems to always be conflated with “vote out of fear.”
There were many secure NDP ridings that had about a zero percent risk of being flipped Con that were flipped Liberal because of this mentality, and many that were flipped Con because Liberal voters split that vote. As we’ve seen, a majority Liberal government is hardly a lesser of two evils as it is portrayed here since they have implemented pretty much everything Cons wanted, with the only benefit really being their continued appropriation of social justice talking points to present some sort of moral superiority. They’re passing internet surveillance and censorship legislation, they’ve cut environmental protections and are eroding First Nations and indigenous sovereignty in service of fossil fuels and other extractive, destructive industries, they’re funneling public wealth into private capital without addressing the inadequacies of any of our social welfare systems or the cost of living. What exactly is lesser? It’s not like they’re doing anything for trans people besides ignoring that they’re still being targeted for genocide (or that Canadians were about to elect an openly genocidal candidate just before Trump won Libs the election).
Could you actually produce evidence that demonstrates that the outcome of this election proves that maintaining strong NDP ridings would have won Cons the election or that a minority Con (or Liberal) parliament would have been in any substantial way worse than a majority Liberal one?