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Johanna, CanCon variant
@johannab@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6993

Petition e-6993 - Petitions

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Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)
@uxmark@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@johannab @1chrisbrennan I just signed it 😀✍️

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Canageek
@Canageek@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@johannab Thank you so much, I'll sign this as soon as I get home from work

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Marcia MacDonald
@marcia@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@johannab
Is @fairvote.ca supporting this petition? I haven't seen them mention it yet.

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Truth Fairy
@TruthFairy@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab Who will pass this legislation though? Both Liberals and Conservatives stand to lose.

Trudeau was the best bet because he kinda just wanted to ride the wave of popularity.

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Amgine
@Amgine@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab

I signed.

The current electoral system is obviously not working well. I look at the slow but steady improvements in #Australia since their electoral reform, and I am impressed. No, it was not a sudden miraculous shift to nirvana. There's still a lot of fighting.

But the stupidly bad politicians are, rightly, being pushed to the margins.

That's what I want. No matter who is backing this. I want the marginal-to-fringe ideologues to be recognized as marginal-to-fringe ideologues.

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Jeremy
@Jeremy@nwt.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab Great. Yes. Happy to sign but please guys, let's not gift the cons and liberals a confirmatory referendum. If they cant stomach PR after two election cycles. Let them form grass roots movements that run on pennies for decades and cry bitter rageful tears as their hopes for change are dashed and they are betrayed again and again. Thats the gauntlet every electoral reformer has had to run. Let them have a taste of it.

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Dave Volek
@davevolek@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab

There were good political reasons Mr. Trudeau had to abandon this plan:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=32&id=135

:: TDG :: Blog

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an actual bus
@renardboy@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab signed, this shit is important

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Amgine
@Amgine@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab

😿

Our Commons blocks #TOR browser. This is new. This is not happy making.

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Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab

The Liberals are feeling completely burned by the last time and the CPC were always completely opposed to it.

It's dead.

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Hubert Figuière
@hub@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab Off course it say "PR". It's not "bring back electoral reform". It's "switch to PR"

Big. fucking. difference.

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Hubert Figuière
@hub@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@johannab PR mean "Ontario will control parliament".

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