It’s great that Pierre lost and he probably lost to someone better, but were there better candidates for the common people on the ballot? How are liberals as a whole for Canada? Would another party have been better - greens for example?
I’ve seen a community about better vote counting system, so it seems Canada is still a first past the post country?
This was the first part I felt strongly that I disagreed with. Did you read the platforms the parties prepared? Liberals was lackluster with few concrete numbers or stats. I couldn’t even find a solid platform on the NDPs website, just links to their various proposed initiatives, though at least they provided a costed estimate for their plans, unlike the other two main ones. The conservative ‘platform’ was a ridiculous mix of ‘blank the blank’ slogans and attacks against the liberals with very very few ideas and even fewer concrete steps for how to achieve it.
The green platform was the only one I read that had concrete numbers (ie proposed wealth tax of X% for Xmillion, y% for Ymillion, etc) and explained their goals without restorting to attack ads. I get its probably not something 90% of voters look at, but fuck people, come on. Their posted platform should be the thing they are held to and asked about, and the less people look at them, the easier it is for parties to avoid posting them or posting bland, non-concrete things they can then weasel out of later.