My riding is either Liberal (which it is now) or PC. Which, the guy who's running for the PCs is my former city councillor, who I don't hate, but can I vote for the PCs? (I like Tory better than McGuinty, but URG.)
I'm waffling between the Liberals and NDP .. I'll likely not know until I'm at the polling station.
But, I'm all for MMP. I hadn't realized it, but it's actually a system in use in several countries, most notably New Zealand, and it seems to work quite well there.
Neither do I. I always got the sense that British Columbia was a more progressive province than Ontario (or maybe that's just the cities?) Anyhow, if it didn't fly there, I don't think we can pull it off here.
MMP is very good, much better than FPP. We've had it since 1996. It's meant a greater diversity of members of parliament, and parties in parliament. Since it went in we've had more female, Maori, Polynesian, Asian, and Muslim members than ever before. Also, the first trasngender member of parliament in the world (I understand).
It's meant smaller parties, on both sides of the spectrum get in, which means that my political views actually get represented. And our government has actually been as stable, if more so, since it came in. We haven't had a snap election in 11 years now. We've also had progressive policies come in such as anti-smacking, legalisation of prostitution, civil unions, the cementing of NZ being nuclear free, and not getting involved in stupid wars in the Middle East.
Your reply contains more information on the MMP system that most Ontarians have received on the issue.
DK and I had to do a fair amount of digging and research on our own to learn more beyond "it involves appointing extra MPPs." I'm afraid it won't pass simply because a lot of people don't really understand how it works and will therefore stick with the devil they know.
Yeah. It wasn't without controversy in NZ when we chose it. To be honest it came in as more of a protest vote against the two major political parties who had been screwing people over, as any sort of positive vote. And we used to have political parties that won up to 20% of the popular vote, but failed to get a single member in parliament.
But people were pretty well-informed, and it won convincingly.
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Sigh.
I quite like MMP, but no one else I've talked to here seems to.
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Our NDP candidate started campaigning last week. He's nineteen and works at Loblaws (I know him from having him bag my produce).
Any vote that's not PC is futile in my riding, so I'm really not sure what to do.
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But, I'm all for MMP. I hadn't realized it, but it's actually a system in use in several countries, most notably New Zealand, and it seems to work quite well there.
So, yeah.
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Where's my "Proud to be Canadian...which is kinda like being Swedish," icon?
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Yay?
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It's meant smaller parties, on both sides of the spectrum get in, which means that my political views actually get represented. And our government has actually been as stable, if more so, since it came in. We haven't had a snap election in 11 years now. We've also had progressive policies come in such as anti-smacking, legalisation of prostitution, civil unions, the cementing of NZ being nuclear free, and not getting involved in stupid wars in the Middle East.
Vote for it!
MMP is originally German.
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DK and I had to do a fair amount of digging and research on our own to learn more beyond "it involves appointing extra MPPs." I'm afraid it won't pass simply because a lot of people don't really understand how it works and will therefore stick with the devil they know.
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But people were pretty well-informed, and it won convincingly.
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I voted for, but was sure it wouldn't pass. :|
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