BC Conservatives face renewed accusations of residential school denialism (www.nationalobserver.com)

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[+] Sunshine@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] khar21@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

The thing is that many people are just unhappy with the current government and don't know wbout things like this and don't spend time on social media too.

And then there's the ones who are fed propaganda by feed algorithms.

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[-] khar21@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Ofcourse we support proportional representation, except most of those parties we don't agree with and/or they just don't have a candidate in our districts.

Also NDP rn has a minority gov anyway so they might be forced by the Greens to try something.

What really pisses me off is that we had a referendum on this in 2018 and 61% voted for the current FPP system.

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[-] khar21@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You don’t actually know how many people support these parties since everyone

Sure, but I know my friend, the only thing he's not is a communist or fascist that leaves him open to center-right, center, center-left, and left. Almost non of those meet that description.

They actually have a razor thin majority.

Yeah I forgot, but after giving one to speaker position, they need a green party vote.

95% of countries that got proportional representation did so through multiparty agreements.

I agree, and I support it, but if it does happen, the opposition is going to go crazy because even though we pretend to be better, we're really about as stupid as the US. We just have better systems.

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[-] khar21@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There are literally six choices apart from the big 2 that meet that description that’s 54% of them, you didn’t actually look at the choices.

Afaik only 5 of them are non-extremist, BC Strong is extremist, "Freedom Party of British Columbia" is also extremist, "Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think For Ourselves & Be Our Own Politicians" also sounds extremist af.
I said our districts didn't have any of those.

You don’t actually know how many people support these parties since everyone is forced to strategically vote

That was mainly countering this, my point was that I know his views and positions on individual issues.

Also, sure the NDP has a one seat majority, but they still signed a cooporation agreement with the greens because a 1 seat majority leaves them vulnerable af.