This is the way. It will be riding by riding. I'd like to see PP lose Carleton, and its Liberal candidate https://bsky.app/profile/brucefanjoy.bsky.social is super, but we all have our own ridings in which to do the hard work.
Canadians, cannot allow Polievre to come in. The Conservatives have no real policies.
Polievre has been repeating like a broken record, the same slogans for months…Axe the tax. He will not stand for Canada and is the MAGA Canadian equivalent. Is that what we want? I do not think so
We currently have 5 parties represented in the legislature and if more Canadian were braver we could have even more.
But otherwise yes, we need electoral reform. However as we've seen we are never going to get that from Libs or Cons so continuing to reward them for failing us is kinda nonsensical.
i think the situation might be a bit more different if the NDP was actually a political entity atm, or if erin o'toole were running, but the fear of poilievre + singh's poor leadership are a potent combination
I want the PPC of crazy Maxime Bernier to do better as they will split the votes with the Conservative and Poilievre - I know they will never win anything, but enough to hurt PP.
they don't seem to be getting any traction or trying much honestly - the only place there vote seems to have gone up since the tariffs is in atlantic canada - poilievre has successfully captured a lot of their appeal
I would vote Green then. And if someone tried to take that democratic choice away from I would vote independent and if that is not an option I would just spoil my ballot or write my own name in.
It seems very unlikely that the NDP will win a majority anytime soon, so I think the best option is to elect the Liberals and pressure them to at least hold a referendum. With the Cons, we have zero chance of change.
We don't need the NDP to win a majority. We just need the Liberals and Conservatives to NOT win a majority and then the NDP or Greens can make reform a condition of support.
We're facing unprecedented tariffs and a fascist takeover to our south. You're wasting your ballot on candidates who won't win so a conservative government can get elected. Do you want the cons to negotiate our sovereignty with trump? Your principled strategy only works when we are in normal times.
Millions of ballots are wasted because of FPTP. If we want every ballot to count, we'd insist on proportional representation. That way we could vote out conscience and not worry about majority governments from extremist parties. In the meantime, no ballot cast in foot faith is ever "wasted."
You just ignored everything I said. We are living in unprecedented times in relation to the economy and our sovereignty. Now is not the time to be protest voting when the cons can hand our country over to American capitalism. Preserving what we have is more important than protesting at the moment.
No I didn't. I strongly take exception to you telling someone that they are wasting their vote. Every election people tell me this and I'm sick of it. I will vote for whoever I want and everyone else should as well.
It's always this election. Let's just rally behind the Libs and then worry about electoral reform. It never ends. Emery Canadian should vote as they want. Pressure your candidates to get behind electoral reform for your vote. I voted for Trudeau because he promised to get it down and lied.
This end of the world scenario is abused by the Libs in every election to try and scare us into strategic voting. If we keep voting for them things will keep getting worse.
How would voting Liberal prevent what I don't want to happen?
They've been in power for a decade while every issue I care about has gotten worse.
And yeah, there's a very good chance I would have voted for Stein if I lived in the US for the same reasons.
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Happy to torpedo their own party.
I don't want to eat a piece of shit, but I'll take it over a dump truck full of it if that's the only options
Polievre has been repeating like a broken record, the same slogans for months…Axe the tax. He will not stand for Canada and is the MAGA Canadian equivalent. Is that what we want? I do not think so
But otherwise yes, we need electoral reform. However as we've seen we are never going to get that from Libs or Cons so continuing to reward them for failing us is kinda nonsensical.
I have zero interest in a US style duopoly.
The Libs have been telling this lie for over 100 years.
https://www.fairvote.ca/100-years-of-broken-promises/
This end of the world scenario is abused by the Libs in every election to try and scare us into strategic voting. If we keep voting for them things will keep getting worse.
Would Polliver want you to do that?
You're giving serious Jill Stein vibes here
They've been in power for a decade while every issue I care about has gotten worse.
And yeah, there's a very good chance I would have voted for Stein if I lived in the US for the same reasons.
https://canadianpolling.substack.com/p/mainstreet-poll-shows-majority-for