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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, but you have to remember that a decent percentage of voters disagree with everything you said in your above comment. Just because our democracy becomes healthier, doesn't mean our lawmakers wouldn't still make dumb policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is research that under proportional representation democracies perform better on climate action.

Source:

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2020/breaking-through-on-climate-action-and-electoral-reform/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't doubt that. All I said is that it's not a panacea. As I said, I would be very happy for PR to be a thing here. Once you make the government more proportional, you then need to actually make everyone give a shit about fixing problems. To get everyone pulling in the same direction on some of these issues is going to be an extremely uphill battle.

A significant chunk of Canadians think we are currently doing too much to mitigate climate change, that we should not endorse urbanist policies in our city planning or transportation infrastructure, and that we should reduce social programs that help people with addictions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree that education needs to be ramped up because the public lacks understanding in many key areas.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Yes, and as we've seen, when you make changes to education which are intended to push a specific political agenda, it always galvanizes opponents of that agenda to go out and vote. So we need to be very careful how that sort of thing is handled.