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AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca to Ontario@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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Watching Canada's decline into a Two-Party System: an r/Ontario post with +1.7k upvotes "Is it time for a Liberal-NDP merger after Doug Ford’s Tories win third straight majority in Ontario election?"

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Watching Canada's decline into a Two-Party System: an r/Ontario post with +1.7k upvotes "Is it time for a Liberal-NDP merger after Doug Ford’s Tories win third straight majority in Ontario election?"

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AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca to Ontario@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40034360

With Duverger’s Law (i.e., in non-PR electoral systems, a trend towards a two-parties), we are running out of time to act. Canada’s 2021 effective number of parties is 2.76 - this number will decrease over time, and will eventually end Canadian democracy as we know it today.


The only way to prevent this democratic backsliding is proportional representation: [email protected]

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    My MPP, Steve Clark, orchestrated an 8 billion dollar graft to try to give wealthy Doug Ford donors an unearned benefit from the corrupt process for removing lands from the greenbelt then won a landslide in our riding. The voters here are so fucking right wing that he could BBQ and eat a baby on King Street in Brockville and they would still elect him.

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      I totally hear you, and know how you feel. It’s not how Canada nor a democracy should be. We must take our grievances and channel them into action.

      This is why I’ve written this: List of American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.

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