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That's a feature of the FPTP voting system we have. (https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/)
Since it encourages people to vote for 1 of 2 major political parties, the wining party needs to get a majority to win and effectively becomes King for 4-5 years.
If we had "Mixed-Member Proportional Representation", then multiple parties would have to join together to form a government after an election. Then if this coalition government did shit like Ford is doing, it would loose support from the other parties and stop being the government.
I forget if it's mentioned in that video, but one of the issues with MMPR is that the party that wins isn't incentivised on changing the system because they already won on FPTP.
I can't help but wonder if the only real chance we have is to split the votes so badly that we have five parties each at over 10% of the seats. Both for changing the system as well as getting the leading parties off their asses and make changes that actually make the country better.
Thanks. The videos were very informative. How do we get such a change to happen?
Vote for candidates that will change the system. Trudeau did say that he would on his first win as PM. But he changed his mind
Just keep voting and stay informed. If you don't vote, you get Doug Ford