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    Justin Trudeau bedauert nun, keine Wahlreform durchgeführt zu haben – „Ich hätte meine Mehrheit nutzen sollen“


    Justin Trudeau bedauert nun, keine Wahlreform durchgeführt zu haben – „Ich hätte meine Mehrheit nutzen sollen“

    https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2024-10-07/reforme-electorale-ratee/j-aurais-du-utiliser-ma-majorite-dit-trudeau.php

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    1. Automatic-Bake9847 on

      What a wonderful thing proportional representation would have been for this country.

    2. KageyK on

      Hindsight is always 20/20. You made a promise, you broke a promise, and it looks like the roosters have come home.

    3. FerretAres on

      “Now that it would benefit me I really wish that I’d done it”

    5. KingOfLaval on

      Let me guess… He’s going to promise electoral reform during the next election?

    6. theshaneler on

      Translation; now that it would help me, I’m sorry I didn’t do it.

      They were fine to break the promise when the analysis showed it would hurt their re-election chances, now that they are at an all time low and it could help (however slightly) they wish they did it.

    7. blownhighlights on

      Ah yes, now he’ll blame the conservatives for not letting him fulfill it.

    8. RedEyedWiartonBoy on

      True to form Trudeau 2 has now realized that it would have been to his advantage to do something, so now he has regrets it.

      Meanwhile, the rest of the country who watched him get elected will promising electoral reform appears to be forgotten in the equation. The level of narcissism involved in this man’s every move is beyond comprehension.

    9. doodlebopwarrior on

      “According to him, some have therefore misinterpreted the commitment formulated in the 2015 electoral platform.

      But “I was never going to do that, and I was not clear enough about it,” insisted the Prime Minister, arguing that he had expressed his opposition to this model….”

      Even on his way out the door he’s still trying to defend himself. What a waste of 10 years we had with this guy.

    10. CyrilSneerLoggingDiv on

      If only he had kept his election promises…

      It’s been almost 10 years, he had plenty of time to enact this if they were serious about it, rather than just using it as an election carrot to dangle.

    11. OneForAllOfHumanity on

      He didn’t go through with it because he didn’t get the type of election reform he wanted. Unlike our current system, which is horrible, he wanted alternative vote, which removes the possibility of a minority government because it just transfers the votes that go to the least favorite candidate to the second choice of everyone who voted for that candidate. Since Canada leans left, all the votes for green and NDP would trickle down to liberals, guaranteeing liberal dominance forever.

    12. mangosteenroyalty on

      Why would you ever say this out loud? Reading it just pissed me off, now we’re all just reminded of your empty promises 

    13. Hicalibre on

      Yea no one is falling for it. You said it the first time, and didn’t do anything. Then proceeded to use the broken system in your favour.

    16. sleipnir45 on

      “In hindsight, the Prime Minister believes that he should have closed the door more categorically on the proportional voting system, which some elected members of his caucus cherished.”

      He wanted to change the voting system but only to what he wanted.

    17. CaliperLee62 on

      [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-trudeau-erskine-smith-podcast-1.7340507](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-trudeau-erskine-smith-podcast-1.7340507)

      >*Erskine-Smith asked Trudeau if he had any regrets lingering from his nine years in office. Without hesitation, the prime minister cited his handling of the electoral reform file.* 

      >*During the 2015 election, Trudeau promised to scrap the first-past-the-post system and replace it with an “electoral system that does a better job of reflecting the concerns, the voices of Canadians from coast to coast to coast.”*

      >*Trudeau later abandoned the promise when he saw rising support for proportional representation (the option favoured by Erskine-Smith) rather than Trudeau’s preferred option of a* *ranked ballot.*

      >*Reflecting on that decision this week, Trudeau said he made two key mistakes in managing that file. The first, he said, was allowing proportional representation to become part of the conversation at all.*

      >*”The second one was me not using my majority to bring in, to bring in the model that I wanted,” he said.* 

      His regret is not forcing through his personally preferred system of ranked ballots, despite the [recommendation of the government’s Electoral Reform Committee being decidedly in favour of proportional representation.](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-electoral-reform-committee-1.3866879)

    18. GlitteringRelease77 on

      What a horrible POS. I hate this country and ALL of our politicians so much.

    20. Itchy_Training_88 on

      Shoulda coulda woulda….

      Let’s be real neither Liberals nor Conservatives would vote for reform. They are perfectly happy with the status quo thar gives them roughly 8 to 12 years cycle of being in power.

      Reform would kill their cycle.

    21. HanSolo5643 on

      God, he’s a slime ball. He only regrets it now because he’s getting destroyed in the polls. He had every opportunity to do electoral reform when he had a majority government, and he decided not to because he was benefitting from the current system. Now that he’s losing, he’s saying he regrets not changing the voting system.

    22. Honeybadger747 on

      Regardless of who you vote for, we need electoral reform, first passed the post is silly.

    24. SSCLIPPER on

      Correct me if I’m wrong but the NDP would support electoral reform

    25. Kasinder on

      Literally the only reason I voted for him was so he would enact electoral reform. First thing he did was say nah just kidding.

    26. endlessninja on

      This was my single issue when I voted for him first time around … whoever reforms first past the post gets my vote. Ranked choice ballot would allow people to actually vote for who they really believe in.

    28. jonproject on

      What an absolute piece of shit.

      That ridiculous questionnaire they sent out to read the room on electoral reform ensured I will never ever vote for this party again. It was so obvious how hard they were angling for a specific type of response. Shameless.

    29. BitingArtist on

      Broke your promise, now you must face the music. No time for regrets anymore.

    31. TheGreatStories on

      No way he’s telegraphing using this as an election promise again in the next one…

    34. imfar2oldforthis on

      He just wanted a ranked ballot which is a ballot and not the actual electoral system. We would have still had first past the post but with a ranked ballot that would give the Liberals a better shot at winning more seats.

    35. Accomplished_Yam1907 on

      Don’t be crying when the liberals lose the next election Justin.

    36. PhrankLee on

      Capt. Obvious. It’s the one and only reason a shit ton of folks voted for LPC. The only reason, imo, he had a majority in the first place.
      I’m disheartened to feel obligated to remind anyone reading that nobody in Canada votes for a Prime Minister. We vote for MPs in our riding.

    37. capncanuck00 on

      No fucking kidding dipshit. He gets a lot of unwarranted hate but not for this issue. He promised electoral reform and never came close to changing it.

    38. robert_d on

      Don’t live with shoulda, woulda, coulda. When you have the opportunity to do something that you think is important, just fucking do it.

      Justin’s legacy will be that of coulda but didn’t.

    39. dendron01 on

      Looks like the virtue signaling is getting retrospective. Thoughts turning to the parliamentary portrait artist…

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