Post #1599784

2026-03-31 04:15 UTC

@carastern this is one that reflects a understanding of ProRep as only a closed party list. This isn’t a system anyone has proposed for Canada. Essentially, it’s a straw-man. The reason that our politicians are so subservient is due to our electoral system. It makes creating a “Startup party” almost certainly doomed. Look at what happened to Maxime Bernier, in a proportional system he’d be in parliament running a small right wing party.

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@smithkm@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 05:30

@paige @carastern pure party list systems haven't been proposed but SMP based MMP has been and often seems to be implied to be the default when people talk about PR without being more specific. SMP based MMP would be strictly worse than our current pure SMP system in terms of party discipline. So I can see how someone would come to this conclusion, and honestly it's something that worries me too given that "PR is all that matters" framing of much electoral reform discussion that I see.

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@danbrotherston@types.pl 2026-03-31 06:35

@paige @carastern this is just a cynical and very weird take. The whole point of proportional representation is to give you a reason to vote beyond “I hate the other guy”. But even leaving that aside the rest is just incoherent. It really makes you question democracy itself sometimes.

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