2019 Federal Election

[danbrotherston]

In municipal elections there are no parties (in Ontario at least, and in most cases...there certainly seem to be "clubs" but they're far less cohesive than provincial or federal parties).  This means that ranked ballots make much more sense.

I don’t see how ranked ballots can be worse than first-past-the-post, even where there are parties. I do agree from discussion here and elsewhere that they probably wouldn’t have as big an impact on party politics as I would like to believe.

As for the per vote subsidy, Trudeau hasn't brought it back because it would be incredibly unpopular, and would result of screaming (wrongly) that he's taking money from the treasury for his party (of course Ford is ACTUALLY doing that, and nobody's freaking out, so the solution is apparently to lie about it). What bothered me is most people claimed that the per vote subsidy meant a party that you didn't support was getting YOUR (tax) dollars.

It would be very unpopular amongst Conservatives. Wouldn’t everybody else be in favour?

I think the real reason he doesn’t bring it back is because it would send a bunch of money to the NDP and Green parties.

Ironically, if they did bring back the per-vote subsidy, the Conservatives would actually get (slightly) more from the program than any other party over the next few years.

I don't think ranked ballots would be worse, I just think they would be no better.

As for the per vote subsidy, it would be unpopular, because right now society in general has an enormous hate on for political spending, and giving money directly too parties I believe would be hated to a degree we have not seen before.