Living in Canada’s Boreal Forest, I’m playing guitar and singing, riding horses as a trail guide, curling, sailing. Former (and maybe future) Green Party Canada and Manitoba candidate. Detaching (I hope) from corporate social media.
I think the promise was “the last unfair election”
The problem is JT (or, probably, more accurately, Gerald Butts) thought that Ranked Ballot was a fairer system.
But pure RB is still a majoritarian system, and is even less proportional (thus less fair IMHO) than FPTP. Once the ERRE made that assessment, it was the end of any “reform”.
CGP Grey did this excellent video on FPTP a number of years ago. Worth a watch.
It explains why a FPTP electoral system will almost certainly gravitate toward a two party system.
It is a feature, not a bug. The NDP is an anomaly. As is the BQ but that’s more about regionalism.
Except the Constitution doesn’t stipulate FPTP. It defines how seats are allocated based on population and provinces and all but doesn’t say how to decide what MPs go in what seats. It doesn’t mention parties either.
Important. Katherine Hayhoe suggests that climate change is the hole in the bottom of the buckets that represent our other major issues. We can pour as much resources in the top but climate change is causing it to run out the bottom.
In my opinion, First Past the Post is the rust that is making the buckets unmanageable in the first place. Highly polarized, flip-floping policy isn’t solving the big problems.