Who says the government isn’t efficient?

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Just to put a downer on things, looking at the final results I do worry that Canada may have won the battle but lost the war.

The situation in the US came about because an entrenched two-party system drowns out most viewpoints, and is what allowed Trump to seize control of a party of politicians who almost universally spoke out against him ten years ago. It’s also responsible for the Democrats’ constant and unrelenting shift towards the Right, enabled by the knowledge that most left-leaning voters are still too cowardly to vote third party.

And what did we see this election? All the smaller party seats drifting to the big two “to stop the wrong guy getting in”.

Be very very careful not to continue down this slope. It does not end with the bad guys staying defeated once and for all.

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It’s still a liberal minority (something cannot occur in a two party system). Our saving grace is our Francophone province that takes British America and mixes in diversity and culture. Politically, this means the bloq that are keeping us from either a Conservative or liberal majority.

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our Francophone province that takes British America and mixes in diversity and culture

Are you talking about the racist xenophobic province who abuse the notwithstanding clause to violate human rights?

The Quebec who bans freedom of speech, books and discriminates against religion?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fatemeh-anvari-removed-from-grade-three-classroom-1.6278381

https://legaljournal.princeton.edu/bill-96-a-violation-of-english-speaking-rights-in-quebec/

Are those the bastions of diversity and culture you’re talking about?

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First, the bad guys will never be defeated once and for all. This isn’t a game or a story, it’s real life with new bad guys trying to gain power in different ways all the time. Second, there is little that voting is going to do in a FPTP country that isn’t supported by one of the two key players, and Canada doesn’t have a method in place for citizens to propose a referendum that isn’t also supported by the party in power. Further to that, the only real options for electoral reform is for the whole country to become aware enough that the parties in power feel they have no choice or to be leaders towards progress and push for it themselves, knowing it will reduce their maximum power pretty much forever after.

This battle is for a whole different war, and only tangentially may have an impact on electoral reform.

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47 points

Wait, he only submitted 7 bills, most of which were trolling, and only one passed?

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Helluva legacy after 30 years in office…

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6 points

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4 points

Attack dogs aren’t known for their intelligence. /s

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26 points

After having to watch this knob in the house for decades, this made my whole year.

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22 points

Parliamentary civility has increased by 60%

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16 points

Lol. They fixed it.

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9 points

They need to update “constituency” to “none”.

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