Thursday, October 20, 2016

Canada's First Past the Post Voting System Suddenly OK...now that the Liberals Have Won

As the Liberal "governing by undoing" continues, this time clearer heads have prevailed.  Suddenly, with no minority government or opposition to worry about, the Liberals have completely changed their whiny, spoiled, school yard kid stance (the NDP is also guilty) on Canada's electoral system, that has worked for almost a century and a half, to "the rules might not be so bad after all....this majority government kind of feels good….great system!". 

Translated (from French to English for non-Canadian readers) from an interview “The Justin” had with La Presse, "Under Mr. Harper, there were so many people who were unhappy with the government and his approach that people said, ‘We need electoral reform in order to stop having governments we don’t like”.  Canadians, if you don’t like the party in power – vote for someone else at the next election, that’s what the “system” is for! It is also called “casting a vote” about which many Canadians are apathetic. The Conservatives obtained its majority and were thrown out under the same rules. 


(Or more ironically, at the end of The Jusin’s majority-lead term, when the balloon deficits, weaker C$, reduced military, further citizenships reinstated for terrorists, increased personal/corporate/environmental taxes and cancelled pipelines are finally on the record, maybe we will be talking about electoral reform again? )




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