• Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    11 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·
      11 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·
        11 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)