I hope this hour has 22 minutes takes him out for a beer

  • MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I’m a proud Canadian, but I’d be even more proud if we had the electoral reform he explicitly promised in his first campaign. He accomplished some good things, but fuck we coulda used that.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      17 hours ago

      This might not be a popular opinion here, but I’m really not all that hurt by the fact that he didn’t try to go through with the electoral reform stuff. I don’t think it’s going to have enough support to have a chance of passing until we spend another couple of decades or so dancing around it. Backing off a campaign promise because you come to the conclusion that it isn’t really feasible isn’t the worst thing a politician can do (and bulling forward even though you’ve been repeatedly told it isn’t a good idea gets you Donald Trump). That a centrist party made electoral reform a campaign promise at all indicates that the idea is gaining traction, and while faster would be nice, I’ll settle for progress in baby steps over no progress at all.

    • Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca
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      19 hours ago

      I’m gonna tell you unfortunately that if we did have that, we would have had the conservatives from 2019 onwards soooooo… Yeah, people can be fucking dumb still.