<div dir="ltr">And, there is a clear consensus on coalition governance!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Anita Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anitann88@gmail.com" target="_blank">anitann88@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">So far now Jenn and I are a fan club of two in a sea of people calling the results crap.<br><br>I know the survey was bad - I wrote the guide to navigate the awful questions. <br><div><br></div><div>But what's crap right now is the way the media is spinning it. It reminds me of the BC STV referendum - 58% said yes but STV was "rejected". Really?<br><br>"Survey says Canadians love our system!" says the media! <br><br>They weren't even ASKED about our system. If they were asked how many like FPTP I'm sure the usual 30-40% would say "great stuff". </div><div><br></div><div>What Canadians love - according to <a href="http://mydemocracy.ca" target="_blank">mydemocracy.ca</a> which probably 300,000 people - is <b>MULTI-PARTY governments that have to make legislation together. </b>Seriously, that's what it says. About four questions all reinforcing that. <br><br>People also said they want to express their preferences even if it takes longer for ballots to be counted and they want more diversity of views in Parliament. <br><br>Even that awful question - "do you want a few big parties or many small parties" - what a stupid choice which reminds me of "do you want stability or a big zoo of wingdings" - 41% of people said they want "many small parties." I couldn't imagine more than 20% saying that. That 41% said "many small parties" is not a stat I'd make a poster of but I think it's significant. <br><br>My own opinion is, the survey was designed with skewed questions probably so the gov't could say "no consensus" and "look, people don't want change". It came back loud and clear that people think we can do better than 39% majorities. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Anita</font></span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Jennifer Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:2jennross@gmail.com" target="_blank">2jennross@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I don't know what TL:DR means, but I did read the very clear and unequivocal call for coalition governments--three different questions, all three were in the 70% range for it. I did read where people don't really care how long it takes to count the ballots as long as they have choice on the ballots. I read a bunch of things that were slightly one way or the other, but for the most part, I thought it was remarkably in our favour!<br><br></div>I frankly don't understand why people are crapping on it.<br><br></div>Tomorrow will be a great discussion night!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_-3099850965648328013h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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