• Bustedknuckles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    461·
    13 days ago

    I’ve been hearing how much this guy sucks for years and years now - why do the good folk of Canada not simply get rid of him?

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      13 days ago

      Voter turnout was less than 50% both times, and here in Canada we have a HUGE political ignorance problem. Way too many people here are completely disengaged from politics and it’s entirely their fault, too.

      Conservatives vote for him because they are stupid as hell. He’s massively, overtly corrupt but he wears blue so they vote for him.

    • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      13 days ago

      He was elected provincially, only Ontario gets to decide.

      The other main party, the Liberal party, was lead by a wet paper towel that had some fairly weak stances on some subjects that people didn’t like.

      There is a 3rd main party, the NDP, that had been elected about 30 years ago during a financial crisis, and because of their performance, the people around at the time have vowed to never vote for them again.

      Combine that with our First-Past-The-Post voting system, which translates 40%, 25%, and 25% of the votes for each party (Conservative, Liberal, NDP) to 70%, 25%, and 5% of the power for each party (Conservative, NDP, Liberal). There is also the Green party which makes up for the remaining percentages.

      I think all of the above is stupid and wish it were better.

      • Ariselas@piefed.caEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        First around the post really is a major problem in Canada, federally it benefits the Liberals and to a slightly lesser degree, the Conservatives, so neither will ever get rid of it. Gotta love a system where 35% = a majority.

        But also don’t forget Ford’s popularity also came with the promise of $1 beer.

        • Yttra@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          Buck-a-beer (low adoption and discontinued, nobody could afford to make beer that cheap), free license plate stickers (costs the province 1.1B per year to waive that fee), and tough on Trump! (he folds on that last one every time the US threatens another national tariff)

    • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      13 days ago

      As a Canadian I have no clue why not. The guy is a crackhead “lite” version of america’s Mangolini with the charisma of a used car salesman. Somehow there’s still enough idiots in this country that can sniff out and vote for fellow morons.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Look at the charismatic chucklefuck he is. He also has a superpower - he’s a politician who can say sorry. He does some corruption or outright stupid shit for a few billion, says sorry, dials it back and we’re back in love with him. It’s the Onterrible way.