bovine wrote:they do have an MP, but he was an old Liberal minister that crossed over to the Greens. He also was kicked out of the Liberals because of the whole sponsorship scandal. I agree that our electoral system is fucked for a multiparty system, but I've already posted that a couple times. People from Ontario are not allowed to whine because you guys had the chance to have a different system and voted it down. BC gets to complain because they had the vote to get PR (proportional representation, the same thing Ontario was voting for) and they got over half, but since they didn't get over 60% of the vote for the required super-majority, nothing happened.
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I can complain about the vote...and I will....a lot. I was shocked that for the first time in 80 years we had an opportunity to shape the structure of our government to actually allow a speck of accountability into the system. Everyone I ever talked to during the 2 months leading up to the election got a HUGE "vote yes for this" speech from me. And you're talking about someone who, in 13 years, never had a reason to vote since the only options I was given was Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum. It's like deciding which shitpile you want your supper to come from.
I was educating people on what I thought it really meant (I did the research on how it was going to work) and what it would lead to. I did everything in my power to get people to vote "yes" (and yes, I went out and vote for it). And what was the end result? 2/3rds of the people disagreed with me. It just proved to me that I'm in the minority as real change to include accountabilty in our political system (whcih is what I want) will never occur because my fellow provincemates don't want it. But I sure as fuck did my part so I can complain for the rest of my natural life about the fact that we'll never have this opportunity again. But like me voting for a politician, it'll mean nothing
Yeah, B.C. got screwed huge. At least the majority of them (unlike the moronic, sheep-like Torontonians) had the good sense to see change was required. I feel sympathy for them as they were really screwed. The politicans set it up to make sure you needed a super-majority rather than a simple one. It's the same as the majority of the Americans voting for Gore but them having to live with Bush. The system failed them huge yet there are no repurcussions. Sad really
