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What If We Put Forward an e-Petition For Electoral Reform? (www.ourcommons.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fairvote@lemmy.ca
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An e-petition will require 5 citizens/residents and an MP to be created. Once it is approved the petition can start collecting signatures. A minimum of 500 signatures is required to have the petition presented to the House of Commons.

The process is depicted here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/Documents/poster-e.pdf

Perhaps organization such as Fair Vote Canada can draft the petition and find an MP who will be willing to sponsor it (most likely a Liberal, Green or NDP MP). I will be willing to put my name forward if Fair Vote Canada can't find 5 citizens to start the petition (but I am sure they can).

Just a thought.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I had to refresh my memory on how that all played out. This article sums it up well. The Liberals were/are too fat on power to ever seriously consider voter reform.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-electoral-reform-biggest-regret-1.7426407

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Which is wild to me. Pushing through voter reform would win then the next election, and limit the damage when they inevitably fuck it up after that. But we can't have long term thinking, I guess.

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