ChalupaCabre t1_jdg74lh wrote on March 24, 2023 at 3:55 AM

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We don’t vote for Prime Ministers.

We vote for local representation. The only reason I vote Liberal is because NDP in my riding has no chance and the Conservatives are always looney toons that I definitely do not want representing me.

I don’t even like Trudeau… but he formed a government with the NDP based off the elected representatives winning in their ridings by votes for those candidates.

Maybe if the Conservatives could stop being so fucking fringe, I could vote for them and maybe other parties would want to work with them to form a government.

kmart_s t1_jdhqp7d wrote on March 24, 2023 at 2:10 PM

That's how it's supposed to work but many people DO vote based on the party leader. If people voted locally the makeup of government would likely be different.

ChalupaCabre t1_jdhzm3z wrote on March 24, 2023 at 3:09 PM

Well I would agree Liberals got some juice out the gates when they took Trudeau as leader.. and when Trudeau said they would legalize cannabis.

I dunno what they have now, except for a platform that they aren’t the crazy conservatives. And I would agree.

If we eliminated first past the post voting and used a system like ranked choice, we definitely would get a different government. For the time I think we will keep having a Liberal lead minority government.. the only way to stop it is with a majority conservative government and the Conservative don’t exactly seem to be getting away from crazy land with the shit they say and do.