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Watching Canada's decline into a Two-Party System: an r/Ontario post with +1.7k upvotes "Is it time for a Liberal-NDP merger after Doug Ford’s Tories win third straight majority in Ontario election?" (www.reddit.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40034360

With Duverger's Law (i.e., in non-PR electoral systems, a trend towards a two-parties), we are running out of time to act. Canada's 2021 effective number of parties is 2.76 - this number will decrease over time, and will eventually end Canadian democracy as we know it today.

The only way to prevent this democratic backsliding is proportional representation: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The Liberals and NDP got 250,000 more votes than the Conservatives. Ontario is left wing with a right wing government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you think liberals are left wing I have some bad news for you.

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

I don't, but they are further left than mini-Trump and his gang of lack-of-virtue signaling maple MAGAts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

True, it is relative.

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