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I’m happy the NDP has worked with the LPC over this last parliament. Together they’ve made a number of significant policy changes that I am quite happy with.
I’m happy the NDP has worked with the LPC over this last parliament. Together they’ve made a number of significant policy changes that I am quite happy with.
I don’t know that there is a path forward in the near term, at least Trudeau won’t revisit it, the CPC love FPTP, and the NDP won’t take anything less than PR. This is a political impasse.
Is it possible Trudeau masterminded the failure of ER on purpose? I guess anything is possible, but that’s too conspiratorial to me, adding unnecessary complexity when a much logistically simpler, albeit narratively longer and less satisfying story played out right in front of us.
Could Trudeau have forced through STV with his majority? Yes of course but that ran counter to his personal brand, the optimism of his 2015 campaign and his early consensus approach to government.
In any case, the truth of what happened doesn’t matter much anymore because the “Trudeau lies” narrative is simple, easily repeated, and has rooted itself in popular social media discourse as practically a meme.
Well the short answer is politics.
The long answer is that when we had the opportunity to make a change, during the ERRE committee time period Trudeau was extremely concerned with presenting himself not just as a Harper alternative (IE a “Not Harper PM”) but as fundamentally different from him. Harper had tight, party whipped votes and was known for being very singular in purpose, he got done what he set out to do like it or not (And I did not). Harper did not collaborate he pushed everyone around. On the other hand, despite having a majority government Trudeau set out to govern more with consensus and collaboration, even going so far as to, under some pressure, give up majority control on the ERRE committee at the request of the NDP, making the committee proportional (this decision proved to be fatal to ER).
It was in that committee where all parties essentially refused to budge on their positions and would not negotiate with the LPC to pass recommendations that the LPC could get past both the house (in a free vote) and the senate (which was much more conservative in 2016). The NDP wanted PR so bad, and STV/Ranked Ballots so little, that they sided with the CPC who wanted to kill the entire thing with referendums instead of working with the LPC to get some change through. The result was recommendation that absolutely had no chance of passing the house, and if implemented no chance of passing the senate, and even if passed through both would not have resulted in reform before the next election as a referendum killed that idea entirely.
So rather than act like Harper would have, and use his majority to push through STV over the objections of the other parties, Trudeau chose to drop it. Instead focusing efforts on things he could pass, like the Elections Modernization Act of 2018 and the removal of senators from caucus.
Federally. STV has been a long standing LPC policy (I should know, I held a policy position for the LPC for more than 6 years). It was their preferred choice during the ER committee, but the NDP and CPC banded together to kill it reccomending vague PR and a referendum instead.
Well that is going to be bad for everyone. Looks like we’re headed back to science denial, tax credits for the rich, program cancellations for the poor, a weak fed that ignores the marginalized, bitcoin for some reason, deregulation, attacks on democracy, and just a general attitude of government by bumper sticker skeleton middle finger.
I remember when PP was in government, they weren’t good days, but I guess Trudeau has been in for so long that the list of true and imagined grievances is going to sink him and the rest of us with him.
Just a note, Liberals wanted a ranked system, STV, but the NDP and CPC outvoted them on the ER committee and effectivly killed it.
There are dozens of us.
Having read the story, this is just the newest iteration of the 90s 800 sex line jobs. We invent some new kind of communication and it immediately is used to seperates horny people from their money.
I just want you to know this is one of my favorite comments of all time.
I look for broken but working sff/tiny deals. Scored a sweet i5 7500 /16gb system for $100CAD. Just had a broken audio port I was never going to use.
Ish, over the medium to long term Nvidia will have to start paying dividends that align with the cost of the share. Otherwise the market will leave for better paying, lower cost stocks.
Ashamed to say it took two viewings to notice and get this.
We should be able to tack on a bunch of fees.
Pretty much only pirate when something isn’t on QoBuz.
Well a 220 seat CPC majority would be bad fucking news.
To hear oil barons tell it, only oil and gas losses count. Billions lost due to climate change don’t count.
I’ve fallen hard for this band. It’s like an Easter egg hunt for the classic rock/pop influences, but the music stands on its own too. As I listen I’m thinking, oh, that’s the beach boys, oh that’s the Beatles, oh that’s Simon and Garfunkel, oh, that’s Sloan, and I love every bit of it.
Also, these low budget music videos are just perfection.
Oh my God, they put it after flights.
You are going to appeal this up the chain right? Regardless of what happens in the court case I hope you can find somewhere to live and be yourself, safely.
This article reads like AI wrote it. It repeats itself very early on the nature of offences, then it reads like the introduction to actual journalism before stopping cold.