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The unofficial Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.

🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.

Le mouvement non officiel de Lemmy visant à amener la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.

🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.

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We're looking for more moderators, especially those who are of French and indigenous identities.

Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.

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If Canada joins the EU, Canadian representatives to the European Parliament would need to be elected via proportional representation, it's part of the requirements. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There is no uniform voting system for the election of [Members of the European Parliament]; rather, each member state is free to choose its own system, subject to certain restrictions:

The system must be a form of proportional representation, under either the party list or the single transferable vote system.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I updated the title of the post to better clarify that this would only apply to Canadian MEPs.

I think that if it comes down to a referendum (not that referendums are necessary anyway), I think a Canadian referendum on EU membership would be more likely to gain majority support than for proportional representation. The reason being is that membership into the EU is easier to understand than proportional representation.

Given the current political climate (the American trade war against Canada), Canadians would be much more receptive to joining the EU.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I feel like if we did end up joining the EU, just seeing how proportional representation functions would help people with onboarding that as a better voting system.
I really hope EU membership gains traction, I think it would be a huge benefit in so many ways. Freedom of movement alone would be a game changer for things like our healthcare system. Enabling EU citizens to more easily move to Canada and bolster our various industries would be exactly what we need, with the additional markets that would open up, to kick our economy into high gear.
Fuck America, we've been really good to them and all that did was paint a fucking target on us...