You’re correct. Despite polling challenges, the NDP has tangibly improved Canadians’ lives through concrete policy achievements like national dental care and prescription drug coverage. These aren’t just symbolic gestures but meaningful improvements in healthcare accessibility.
The NDP’s current polling challenges aren’t a failure of the party, but a symptom of a fundamentally broken electoral system that systematically discards millions of valid votes every election.
He pulled support from the liberals at the worse possible time maybe people are leery with going to the middleman now and are just directly voting liberal.
Your observation highlights a critical dynamic in our winner-take-all electoral system. Under First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), voters often feel strategically compelled to consolidate around perceived “viable” options rather than supporting parties that genuinely represent their interests.
This phenomenon is precisely why proportional representation (PR) is so crucial. In a PR system, voters could support the NDP without fear of “wasting” their vote or inadvertently enabling a less-preferred outcome. The current FPTP system creates perverse incentives that discourage genuine democratic expression.
The effective number of parties in Canada is currently 2.76 and declining - a trend that threatens democratic diversity. Unless we implement proportional representation, we’re likely heading toward a two-party system that will further constrain political discourse and representation.
And yet, Jagmeet fulfilled more election promises than others, improving healthcare w/prescription and dental coverages, etc…
You’re correct. Despite polling challenges, the NDP has tangibly improved Canadians’ lives through concrete policy achievements like national dental care and prescription drug coverage. These aren’t just symbolic gestures but meaningful improvements in healthcare accessibility.
The NDP’s current polling challenges aren’t a failure of the party, but a symptom of a fundamentally broken electoral system that systematically discards millions of valid votes every election.
He pulled support from the liberals at the worse possible time maybe people are leery with going to the middleman now and are just directly voting liberal.
Your observation highlights a critical dynamic in our winner-take-all electoral system. Under First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), voters often feel strategically compelled to consolidate around perceived “viable” options rather than supporting parties that genuinely represent their interests.
This phenomenon is precisely why proportional representation (PR) is so crucial. In a PR system, voters could support the NDP without fear of “wasting” their vote or inadvertently enabling a less-preferred outcome. The current FPTP system creates perverse incentives that discourage genuine democratic expression.
The effective number of parties in Canada is currently 2.76 and declining - a trend that threatens democratic diversity. Unless we implement proportional representation, we’re likely heading toward a two-party system that will further constrain political discourse and representation.
Yes I know that about PR but it’s not the system Canada has and it’s probably the single greatest failure of Trudeau.
Yup. He saw a political opportunity, and now I don’t trust him. I usually vote NDP, but I’ll be voting Lib this election to avoid a PP PM.