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BC Conservatives face renewed accusations of residential school denialism
(www.nationalobserver.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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People were all too ready to give these cruel ignorant racists all the power in the province.
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.
There are 11 other political parties and independents people can check out. There’s no need to support the two corporate parties. Not to mention people donate and volunteer to the conservatives and ndp too much. They need to earn your vote not demand it. Support proportional representation as well since you cannot divide a complex society into 2 camps jeering at each other like children in the legislative assembly.
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.
You don’t actually know how many people support these parties since everyone is forced to strategically vote and its to harder to run motivated candidates when they don’t get properly rewarded for their efforts since most of the votes do not actually determine the winner just the one with the most votes. So a person could win a seat only securing 10% of the vote if all the rest of votes went to the 20 other candidates. How is that fair when the other candidates did a better job appealing to the 90% majority?
They actually have a razor thin majority.
Referendums are designed to fail as fearmongering is very powerful especially when the rich can afford all the political advertisements.
95% of countries that got proportional representation did so through multiparty agreements.
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.
Yeah I forgot, but after giving one to speaker position, they need a green party vote.
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.
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.
They do not since the speaker can use their vote to break a tie.
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.
2 people are hardly indicative of the province and the 2 big political parties have wealthy donors who can afford to donate consistently and the media outlets have popularity thresholds for debate eligibility.
Ask yourself why the debates often only have 3 contestants in attendance.
It’s much harder for everyday people to hear about the smaller parties in general as they do not have the donations or candidates to be visible enough.
At least we have vote subsidies to even the playing field a bit.
I never pretended 2 people represented the province, I only gave an anecdote.
Stop trying lecture every time you reply.
Some people were. The majority, not so much.
The problem with first-past-the-post is that it can give the minority all the power in parliament and the bc conservatives have more than enough voter-share required to win a false majority without accountability. Do you actually trust them with the notwithstanding clause that has never been used in bc before?
The bc ndp must pass the single transferable vote recommendation from the last citizen’s assembly before they potentially enable the fascists to raise into power.