I will be driving the few miles to the
polling location shortly to waste my time voting for a candidate who
will not be elected, its more of a protest vote against the 'party'
of the fellow who will almost certainly get in in this traditional
conservative riding. I have nothing against the individual, or for
that matter no great affection for any of the others, I dont know
them, have never met them and know very little about them. Therein
lays part of the problem with our system of governance, we hear much
about the 'leaders' and their 'platforms' (aspirationial lies?), a
little about the more high profile individuals and 'close' riding's
but considerably less about our local candidates unless one attends
an 'all candidates' forum if and when organized. It matters not
anyway for even if elected the chances of 'your' MP having any great
influence in any decisions is minimal, are they a member of the
'winning party', are the part of 'cabinet' within that party, how
much influence do even cabinet members have upon the 'leader' and his
inner circle of unelected advisors.
How many of us actually vote directly
for the individual as opposed to the political party they represent
(they supposedly represent us but.....) or indirectly for the leader
of said party?
Many of us continue to mourn the
failure to adopt a new voting system in Canada and I would hope that
at some point that whole idea is revisited but the greatest danger I
see with such change that I see is adopting a system that is worse
than the one we have now. For now we are stuck with the system we
have and it looks like it will bring us a minority government (which
is almost certainly what any more proportional system would bring us
regularly) the question then being can our elected representatives of
all stripes work TOGETHER for the benefit of all Canadians or will
they be so busy fighting each other that NOTHING gets done?
Me cynical, you better believe it, and
getting more so daily as the BS gets deeper each news cycle.
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The potentially divisive nature of MMP system of government is why Trudeau prefers ranked ballots. Also, the Cons and indecisive NDP wanted a referendum to change from FPP voting. Referendums are also very divisive.
UU
The mere discussion of electoral reform is 'divisive' UU, but its one we must, and will, have again in the future.
I agree, Rural. We're going to revisit this issue.
It remains to be seen how soon that will happen Owen, and where it will lead!
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