Living in Canada’s Boreal Forest, I’m playing guitar and singing, riding horses as a trail guide, curling, sailing. Former (and maybe future) Green Party Canada and Manitoba candidate. Detaching (I hope) from corporate social media.
CGP Grey did this excellent video on FPTP a number of years ago. Worth a watch.
It explains why a FPTP electoral system will almost certainly gravitate toward a two party system.
It is a feature, not a bug. The NDP is an anomaly. As is the BQ but that’s more about regionalism.
Yup. That’s a difficult balancing act. Thing is, nobody wants North American cars except North Americans. The rest of the world is going to EVS while we spend billions (which Stellantis is still in debt for IIRC) propping up and industry that has retrenched back to huge gas guzzlers.
It is reminiscent of the 1970s energy crisis. We bailed out Chrysler (and Ford?) while they surrendered market to smaller, more efficient, European and Japanese imports.
Important. Katherine Hayhoe suggests that climate change is the hole in the bottom of the buckets that represent our other major issues. We can pour as much resources in the top but climate change is causing it to run out the bottom.
In my opinion, First Past the Post is the rust that is making the buckets unmanageable in the first place. Highly polarized, flip-floping policy isn’t solving the big problems.