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    Meinung: Er bereut es? Vergessen Sie nicht, dass Justin Trudeau der Architekt des Untergangs der Wahlreform war


    Meinung: Er bereut es? Vergessen Sie nicht, dass Justin Trudeau der Architekt des Untergangs der Wahlreform war

    https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/he-regrets-it-dont-forget-justin-trudeau-was-the-architect-of-electoral-reform-s-demise/article_9cbc5424-cd0b-11ef-b44e-639f030a646b.html

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    1. aaandfuckyou on

      What are all these oped writers going to do once Trudeau’s gone. Who will they get to blame everything on once Poilievre’s in power? Or will the narrative immediately change to: Canada is the greatest country on earth.

    2. al4141 on

      The only reason he supported the idea in the first place was because he thought proportional representation or something similar would give him more seats. Once he realized the first past the post system suited his needs well enough he stopped talking about it.

      Edit: I meant ranked ballot, not proportional representation.

    3. TheWaySheHoes on

      Well of course he was the architect, the PMO in this government massively centralized power, even compared to Harper who famously did the same.

      However, I think that he was in a bit of a bad spot on this one. Its a niche issue and there’s no consensus on what the better solution is.

      There also really is no clean way around the need for a referendum on it. You really can’t change something as fundamental as how we vote with a mandate of 39%.

      I would love to see some form of reform as I believe FPTP exacerbates regionalism and stereotypes, but it needs to be done properly and it certainly can’t be done with a whiff of too clever by half self-serving cynicism if its ever going to last.

    4. Low-Candidate6254 on

      He thought that if he changed the voting system that he and the Liberals would always stay in power. Once he came to the realization that he wouldn’t always win with a new voting system, he backed away from it.

    5. Knight_Machiavelli on

      The author is bang on. Every party in the House supported PR and Trudeau alone opposed it. Not even the Liberals as a whole, many of whom support PR themselves, but Trudeau whipped them to vote against it because he personally didn’t want PR.

    6. kilawolf on

      Why are ppl pretending JT was advocating for proportional vote?!? The libs were clearly only supportive of ranked ballots which benefited them (but could also change the way voters vote).

      He regrets not pushing HIS version of electoral reform…and never any form of proportional vote

      Extremely disingenuous otherwise

    7. theHip on

      We all know that he is responsible for breaking that promise of electoral reform. I think you can regret decisions you made. I think the title of the article is dumb. 

    8. matrixknight88 on

      I find it ironic that if people saw that he made this change, it might have helped him save some face because it would have been tangible at election time that maybe he actually did something worthwhile.

    9. Godzilla52 on

      It probably wouldn’t have saved Trudeau, but it could have cushioned the blow significantly for them in 2024-2025 by having less voters abandon them and preventing a likely Poilievre led majority (especially since it would likely force the CPC to moderate on social and climate policies to actually have a chance of forming future governments etc. which could have butterflied Poilievre away from being a viable CPC leader)

      In hindsight not following through on electoral reform was probably one of the many things that alienated so many 2015 LPC voters by 2019, leading to them getting a minority and marginally less votes that the CPC. Alone it probably wouldn’t have changed 2019 or 2021 significantly, but I think after 2018, the government’s mandate was getting much weaker/unfocused and the 2019 & 2021 campaigns were largely focused on highlighting the CPC’s baggage rather than what the government’s vision for the country was.

      None of that is to say that they didn’t have policy achievements after 2018, but they clearly became more complacent and out of touch with voters between 2018-2025, largely only holding on to power because the CPC was seen as unpalatable by the majority of voters.

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