Country Ahead of Party? Fat Chance.

 


It's enough to make Liberals giddy. A majority win for the LPC is a matter of dropping the writ.

338 Canada has run the numbers. It concludes that with barely 36 per cent of the vote the Liberals would win 170 seats, a clear majority.  The NDP, with more than half as many votes as the Liberals, would garner a paltry 35 seats.

Is that democracy? Of course not. 100 per cent of the power with nearly two thirds of the voting public shut out, unrepresented in the halls of power. That's perverse and that's all it is. 

This year has demonstrated that climate change has our country, our people by the throat. If ever we needed representative democracy, it's now.


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  1. John B.July 13, 2021 at 9:10 PM

    The CoR Party used to refer to majority government in Canada as "constitutional dictatorship". I can't recall anything else about the party, so it might have been the only accurate statement it ever produced. They might even still be around.

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    1. The Disaffected LibJuly 14, 2021 at 8:50 AM

      That's certainly the case today where a majority results from a vote in which the will of the majority of voters is negated. If democracy is governance by the consent of the governed and the will of more than three out of five voters is negated in creating a majority government, there's nothing democratic about that. This only encourages the worst scoundrels to campaign on a platform of lies and empty promises such as First Nations reconciliation, real action to fight climate change and the zinger, electoral reform. That is, in fact, a constitutional dictatorship.

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