Landsknecht posted:

decision-based question making

BGrifter posted:

So according to Justin's goofy Buzzfeed poll the only places in Canada that share my values are Quebec and Newfoundland.

Interesting.

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So the first principle. Electoral reform must ensure that Canadians perceive the outcomes of elections as legitimate. Canadians should believe that their intentions as voters are fairly translated into election results without significant distortion that often characterizes elections conducted under the first past the post system. This is one of those values that there seems to be consensus on.

Second, electoral reform must restore Canadians’ confidence that they can influence politics and that voting makes a meaningful difference. It’s vital for Canadians to be engaged and to participate in the democratic process more broadly and if we do this right, this can lead to higher voter turnout.

Third, changes to the system must ensure the kind of inclusive politics that Canadians want. This means selecting reforms that contribute to increasing civility in politics. This means, beyond that, restoring the public’s trust in their government and strengthening representation by encouraging greater diversity in both the House of Commons and in politics more broadly.

Fourth, reforms will likely lead to changes to how we vote, but reforms should not make the voting system overly complex.

Fifth, changes to the voting system should be designed to making voting more user-friendly and more accessible in the broadest sense of the world. This means reducing or limiting barriers that prevent Canadians from voting where possible, including time constraints, physical impediments and social conditions.

Sixth, changes to our voting system should take into consideration the relationship and accountability between citizens and their representatives in Parliament. Canadians value the understanding that local MPs have of their community. I know as an MP the love and appreciation I have for Peterborough–Kawartha is at the heart of the work that I do. And Canadians value that connection and the incentive for MPs to discuss and resolve their concerns. Local representation also has enabled our legislature to reflect the vast and richly diverse geographic span of our country.

Seventh, reform must protect the integrity and the security of the vote. Canadians need to know that election outcomes are based on objective and verifiable processes that protect election results from cyber or physical tampering and ensures that the secrecy of their votes is protected. This is particularly relevant to the conversation around online voting.

And finally, our electoral reform must fundamentally shape our democracy as one that inspires Canadians to find common ground, pursue consensus and encourage governments to cast a broad tent that seeks to include all Canadians regardless of their partisan positions.

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Risky Bisquick posted:

The ONDP just called me begging for dollars. I never shared my info with them. Does the federal party share donor information? I didn't find my name on the elections Canada website donor list so I'm a bit miffed.

Powershift posted:

He obviously had 4 wheel drive engaged, a quick boot of the throttle and he would have avoided the cop car and slid gently into the fire truck at the bottom of the hill.

Baronjutter posted:

This is all you need to know about him:
"Horgan loves science fiction, especially Star Trek. His father died when he was a toddler, so having been raised by his mom and older sister, he thinks Capt. Kathryn Janeway is the best of the Star Trek captains."

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As the 2005 provincial election was approaching, the 45 year old Horgan won NDP nomination, against Julie Thomas of Shawnigan Lake in the riding of Malahat-Juan de Fuca.[10] The incumbent MLA Brian Kerr was not seeking re-election so in the general election, Horgan faced BC Liberal Cathy Basskin of Cowichan Bay, Democratic Reform BC party leader Tom Morino, Steven Hurdle who was a late-replacement for the Green candidate, a Western Canada Concept candidate. Polling showed Morino was drawing significant amount of the centrist vote so that it was a close race between the two top parties: NDP and Liberals.[11] Though Horgan won his riding, the NDP under Carole James's leadership formed the official opposition to the BC Liberals who formed an absolute majority government. Horgan was named opposition critic to the Minister of Education Shirley Bond. Horgan criticized the government's 2005 Teachers' Collective Agreement Act which legislated a new contact onto teachers, after several months of unsuccessful collective bargaining, as "inflam[ing] an already volatile situation".[12] In June 2006, Horgan was moved over to critic to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resource Richard Neufeld. Horgan called for the Oil and Gas Commission to provide more transparent reporting after it was claimed its annual 97% compliance rating was near-perfect, despite 2,500 known infractions, the majority of which were rated major or serious.[13] Following a sudden sharp increase in gasoline prices in early 2007 Horgan introduced the Retail Petroleum Consumer Protection Act as a private member bill which, if passed, would have put gasoline prices under the jurisdiction of the B.C. Utilities Commission, same as electricity and natural gas.[14] The bill was supported by an 18,000 signature petition[15] and elicited editorial responses from Minister Neufeld and Christy Clark.[16][17]

vyelkin posted:

This makes him sound like he was a child when Voyager was on air instead of a grown-up adult man in his 30s who can make his own drat opinions about things.

Also his Wikipedia page looks like it was written by a grade 9 student as a class project.

infernal machines posted:

He's an adult who has public opinions about Star Trek, that says all you need to know.

CLAM DOWN posted:

The problem more is that he likes Voyager and not DS9, which is objectively the best star trek

"Kelly Leitch posted:

I’ve never heard of this organization. I did not seek their endorsement. I do not want their endorsement,
To think my campaign is in any way based on ethnic nationalism is to be willfully ignorant of what my campaign is about.

cowofwar posted:

I don't understand why the polling company pre-polled and clustered the results in to those five categories. Sure, do that analysis with the final data set but why do a tiny rear end sampling to identify n clusters and then do a big poll to see how the data maps on to those clusters? That's bad methodology, I'm certain the number of significant clusters would be way higher than five in the final set. It's basically a summary of the problem with the current system: if I polled ten Canadians based on the data I might conclude that only LPC and CPC exist and the rest are weird outliers, so then I poll everyone else, push it through my model and find that Canadians are 55% LPC and 45% CPC. See the problem?

And if you're going to do some sort of PCA analysis then you need a waaaay better question set. Garbage in garbage out.

Baronjutter posted:

As someone raised by a single parent I love the star trek with the childless crazy person as a captain and not the captain who has a strong focus on being a single parent trying to raise a boy the best he can.

Helsing posted:

You've misunderstood both Trudeau and Obama. First of all Obama is not in any way weak, he just relied on liberal voters and was operating at a time of heightened liberal anger and frustration following the Bush years. The Republicans were an extremely useful source of justification for his awful healthcare bill, his attempts to cut social security, and various other policies he enacted at the behest of the donors who run the Democratic party.

As for Trudeau, he has never ever given any indication he has deep enough opinions to actually have strong preferences on a voting system. Whereas Obama at least had to work hard to get to the Presidency and has lived a life full of genuinely impressive accomplishments, Trudeau's biography is completely underwhelming outside his father and his current occupation. If you want to know why Trudeau gave that weird answer it's probably because he was willing to say almost anything in that moment to continue looking good. While their style of presentation is very different, the best equivalent for Trudeau would be another spoiled rich kid who will say literally anything in the moment to sound good, even if it doesn't line up with their previously stated actions of statements.

Pinterest Mom posted:

right i keep forgetting about this

namaste faggots posted:

all star treks except TNG are garbage, you fuckin nerds

PT6A posted:

EDIT 2: How do you even do something like that? Who goes to the trouble of getting a noose just to be a racist dickwad to some people at an LRT station? Somewhere along the line, don't you realize that's a horrible idea and literally anything else ever is a better use of your precious time on this earth?