The image is an infographic titled "The Liberal's Broken Promise: Electoral Reform" that displays a vertical timeline with colored dots and information boxes chronicling electoral reform events in Canada.
The timeline shows six key events:
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June 2015 (pink dot): Campaign Promise - Justin Trudeau pledges: "We are committed to ensuring the 2015 election will be the last election using first-past-the-post."
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October 2015 (blue dot): Election Victory - Liberals win a majority government with 39.5% of the popular vote, securing 184 seats (54% of the House of Commons).
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June 2016 (light blue dot): Special Committee Created - The Electoral Reform Committee (ERRE) is established to study options. The committee conducts consultations across Canada.
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December 2016 (red dot): Committee Recommendations - The ERRE recommends proportional representation. 88% of electoral experts consulted favoured proportional representation.
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February 2017 (blue dot): Promise Abandoned - PM Trudeau abandons electoral reform, claiming "no consensus" despite clear committee recommendations and public consultations.
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October 2024 (black dot): Looking Back - Trudeau admits he should have "immediately shut down talk about proportional representation" and that Liberals were "deliberately vague."
Below the timeline is a "Key Statistics" box showing:
- 63% of voters cast ballots for parties promising electoral reform
- 80% of town hall participants asked for proportional representation
- 71% wanted parties to govern together
The infographic includes a Creative Commons license icon in the bottom left corner and a QR code in the bottom right. The footer cites sources: House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, Fair Vote Canada, Policy Options.
I have been an NDP member for over 20 years. I have always voted my conscience. This will be the first time since the 90s i have voted for the liberal party.
Why?
Because this election is too important. If we allow Poilievre to form government, our country could very likely fall completely under his watch.
Let's be completely clear. If you want to vote in 5 years in a CANADIAN election, there isn't even 2 choices, there is only 1.
Singh knew the danger of Poilievre, which is why he propped up the Liberals for 3 years.
We are at war. It may be a war of economics, but it's still a war. And when you are at war, you want your most experienced and equipped soldier in charge. Right now, today... that is Carney.
I hate FPTP, and I have been angry at Trudeau for a decade for breaking his promise of reform... but the barbarians are at the gate. We as Canadians, for this election, need to not let perfect be the enemy of survival.
Carney is not the perfect leader, but he's the best option by far to keep the barbarians out because Poilievre will happily open the gates for them.
Also, a big part of why the NDP is losing ground is a completely uninspiring leader. Today would be a different conversation if Angus, who was my vote for leadership, had won in 2017. But here we are...
Then after the election, you better be fighting your hardest to get proportional representation.
Get started with this link: Simple things you can do right now, to grow the proportional representation movement—so we never have to vote for the lesser of the evils, have a two party system, "split the vote", or strategic vote.
I have done all of those things and will continue to do them in the future. But it doesn't change the reality of the present.
Thanks! Let's keep growing the PR movement!