Is electoral reform possible now? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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It's very likely that the Liberals will have to work with the NDP to form government. Isn't it a no brainer for the NDP to make electoral reform a deal breaking issue?

Lack of proportional representation is what has led to their laughable 7 seats.

The liberals will find working with the bloc a lot harder than the NDP, so electoral reform seems like an acceptable deal from their end too, right?

Should we be excited for this?

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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago

A few scattered thoughts on this:

The NDP are leaderless, and are therefore agendaless until they can get organized again.
They're also probably broke, and in no position to fight another election.
While they certainly hold a good position in the new HoC, there's bound to be some introspection about how that worked out for them last time.