I hope this hour has 22 minutes takes him out for a beer
I’m a proud Canadian, but I’d be even more proud if we had the electoral reform he explicitly promised in his first campaign. He accomplished some good things, but fuck we coulda used that.
I’m gonna tell you unfortunately that if we did have that, we would have had the conservatives from 2019 onwards soooooo… Yeah, people can be fucking dumb still.
According to the modelling I can find,
yes, the conservative party would have won the most seats in 2021 if we’d had a more proportional system.I goofed, FairVote actually has the cons winning more seats under STV, but the liberals more under MMR.But critically, it does not mean that the Conservative Party would have formed goverment, because under a more proportional system, they would not have had the seats to form a majority.
They would have been forced to either build a coalition with another party or parties, or they would have had to allow a majority coalition to form government if they were unable to make enough concessions to do so.
For all of his many shortcomings (which, yes, there are a lot of them and many of them are pretty awful), I’m proud of how he’s handled this. I hope that he enjoys a peaceful and happy retirement with his family.
I think what had frustrated me is that the criticisms of him that matter half as much for more coverage than the ones that were twice as important.
A lot of the scandals were fully non issues too (I’ll die on the hill that WE was not Trudeau’s fault, the blame lies squarely on the public service And their procurement policies).
Lots of good, lots of bad, with any leader we should not get caught up trying to make Trudeau’s legacy black and white. We need to dig into the moments and decisions and impacts of all of it through as many lenses as possible to do better.
You are very wise, wise_pancake
