Sunshine

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Divest harder until the entitlement is gone.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Build those gripen units to sell to Ukraine, Canada and Taiwan.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What he actually means: we want to steal from you!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe there are 600+ First Nations across Canada.

7 out of the 12 indigenous language families are in BC. The families encompass 70 languages.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's pretty unfair!

Consider writing to your local mp demanding that your tax dollars be used to expand dentalcare.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

9m people eligible in 2025 in the original doc

If that's true then the maximum would be be 21.76% of the population covered by the plan. We're currently 8.36% away from that goal.

However our taxes are going to Sun Life Financial who is currently lobbying against pharmacare.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Looks like Robinhood to me. The red and blue politicians intend to keep groceries expensive for their rich backers.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

You don’t get to boss the courts around Eby. Stop opposing indigenous rights.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

Canadians need to protect Canada Post from the liberal-conservative coalition serving the rich.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

The BC NDP wants to serve the rich and powerful who are destroying the climate.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Glad to help 👍

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So...how would proportional representation even work? Would your representatives be chosen for you, based on the total number of votes in the province?

You’re thinking of the closed party list electoral system. Which isn’t being proposed for Canada.

Proportional representation is a family of voting systems that corresponds to the percentage of the vote.

The 3 systems that are under the pr umbrella are the single transferable vote, mixed-member proportional and party lists.

who gets to choose who occupies those proportionally delegated seats in the legislative assembly, if it's no longer chosen by each riding?

The single transferable vote groups multiple single member ridings into one like from 1 to 5 representatives. With mixed-member it’s a hybrid between first past the post and party lists, where you get 2 ticks one for your local representative and one for your preferred party.

I get how this works, in theory...but in practice, we would no longer be choosing our own representatives anymore. You'd get proportional representation...but lose the choice of who those representatives are.

Thats not accurate. Since you can rank your candidates on the ballot with stv or chose between your local candidate with mmp.

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