Nothing says “classy” like flying that flag.

Good L🍁ck Trudeau! (But also, don’t let the door hit you on the way out…)

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    Thanks for explaining that. It sounds like a better system in that you can force an election at any time. I’m jealous of that right now.

    I know the PR and propaganda machines have been going after Canada. I really hope you guys don’t get forced or go willingly down the same road as us. I’ll be looking for that Poilievre person to not be in the running.

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      you can force an election at any time.

      Thing is, a government with a majority will often easily win a no-confidence kind of challenge. Especially true of conservatives, whose core strength is blind loyalty, there’s no point in trying.

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      You can force an election for a minority government. If one party has a majority, it can go for a while, more then four years

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        Okay, I’m not jealous of the 4 year part unless it has some hidden benefit. Maybe moving that slow keeps it stable?

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          Maybe moving that slow keeps it stable?

          That’s not how long it takes. We have regional non-conservatives in power here, and they seem to be launching spurious confidence challenges every week. I think their plan is to have so many that people stop showing up and supporting the evil non-cons.

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          It wouldn’t be a problem if we had proportional representation. In Canada, a party can get a majority government with a minority of the voting population due to how it’s calculated. This often means low voter turnout because a large number of people feel their vote doesn’t count.

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            It wouldn’t be a problem if we had proportional representation

            Is there nothing it can’t do? (when all you have is a hammer, everything’s a nail)

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            So you have the same problem as us. I think in the olden days, our corrupt politicians and elites colluded with the world’s corrupt politicians and elites, and had a good laugh how they set it up in their favor.