2019 😭
I'd love for this to be true, but outside of Lemmy, a few niche communities, and some op-eds in the news I don't really hear anyone pushing for it. I might be missing the signs, but after JT's 2015 campaign interest in repealing FPTP seems to have fizzled for the larger public.
Not quite, some tried to get a national Citizens' Assembly for electoral reform going recently but were voted down.
https://nationalcitizensassembly.ca/
https://www.uncommons.ca/p/we-killed-electoral-reform-again
https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/111023/motions/12517157
They don't want us changing things, but we must and we will keep trying. Fair Vote has a newsletter too if you want to stay in the loop without having to do anything.
What would an individual be able to do to make proportional representation happen? So far, in BC the issue failed to win the vote twice, and when we overwhelmingly elected someone who promissed to do it, he backed out of that promise. I am honestly trying to learn what people can do if this is an important issue to them.
Everyone will be educated on pr eventually.
Prop Rep makes for a certain amount of EVEN SAFER seats, though?
In an MMP or straight-up 100% prop rep, any seats your party wins can be just freely assigned to party members, so even for tiny parties who get like 3-5% of the vote, they know for a fact that like 1-5 people WILL get in, and they can pick their craziest people to fill those seats to maximize the attention they get.
