The image is an infographic titled "The Liberal's Broken Promise: Electoral Reform" that displays a vertical timeline with colored dots and information boxes chronicling electoral reform events in Canada.
The timeline shows six key events:
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June 2015 (pink dot): Campaign Promise - Justin Trudeau pledges: "We are committed to ensuring the 2015 election will be the last election using first-past-the-post."
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October 2015 (blue dot): Election Victory - Liberals win a majority government with 39.5% of the popular vote, securing 184 seats (54% of the House of Commons).
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June 2016 (light blue dot): Special Committee Created - The Electoral Reform Committee (ERRE) is established to study options. The committee conducts consultations across Canada.
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December 2016 (red dot): Committee Recommendations - The ERRE recommends proportional representation. 88% of electoral experts consulted favoured proportional representation.
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February 2017 (blue dot): Promise Abandoned - PM Trudeau abandons electoral reform, claiming "no consensus" despite clear committee recommendations and public consultations.
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October 2024 (black dot): Looking Back - Trudeau admits he should have "immediately shut down talk about proportional representation" and that Liberals were "deliberately vague."
Below the timeline is a "Key Statistics" box showing:
- 63% of voters cast ballots for parties promising electoral reform
- 80% of town hall participants asked for proportional representation
- 71% wanted parties to govern together
The infographic includes a Creative Commons license icon in the bottom left corner and a QR code in the bottom right. The footer cites sources: House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, Fair Vote Canada, Policy Options.
The prospect of a madman pushing annexation and meeting lukewarm opposition from a career politician whose only argument is this exact argument doesn't give anyone the warm fuzzies.
Was Trudeau's tenure a roaring success? Doesn't matter, that's yesterday's news .
Agreed. I'll take a party that broke our trust over a party that wants to break our country.
Sadly, there is not a realistic 3rd option at this time.
I get the frustration, I really do. But look, there are actually other options out there - NDP🟧, Greens🟢, and Bloc⚜️ all support proportional representation.
The thing is, this feeling that we only have two choices? That's exactly what our First-Past-The-Post system wants us to believe. It's working as designed. Canada's effective number of parties has already shrunk to 2.76 - we're literally sliding toward that American two-party nightmare thanks to Duverger's Law.
Every time we hold our noses and vote strategically for parties that have zero interest in fixing the system, we're just keeping this broken cycle going.
Your vote is yours. It doesn't "belong" to either of the big parties by default. And honestly, if you're voting for a party that refuses to fix our democracy, that's when your vote is truly wasted.
Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
But doing that is exactly what led to the fascist morons being in charge down there.
We can figure out proportional representation after the very real existential threat to our country is dealt with.
Then after the election, you better be fighting your hardest to get proportional representation.
Get started with this link: Simple things you can do right now, to grow the proportional representation movement—so we never have to vote for the lesser of the evils, have a two party system, "split the vote", or strategic vote.