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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I do not believe you are so stupid as to think that voting for a party means you support literally every proposal a party has.
But the fact that you say this right after a poll is released showing three Canadians in four oppose any change absent a referendum suggests I need to re-evaluate my belief.
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You're all class.
Seriously, They (all the opposition parties) were all up front about wanting to change the electoral system. It's perfectly reasonable to believe that the people who voted for them either want electoral change or are largely indifferent (a view that a recent poll by Abacus basically confirms with pro-electoral change outpacing con-electoral change by nearly 2 to 1 with a large percentage of indifference).
If folk want a referendum then fine... let's do Nathan Cullan's suggestion and change the electoral system and then after the new system get's a chance to work in practice then have a referendum on whether to change it back. That would give us enough time to do something else that ought to happen first... amendments to S.C. 1992, c. 30 (Referendum Act). This is something I've wanted for a long time and the last thing I want is to see this die on the vine.