General Goals

1. Ranked Choice voting immediately  

2. Return the Per-vote subsidy party funding scheme

3. All election days are stat holidays  

4. Investigate how to implement a mixed-member representative voting model

   • And whether Canadians want it in the first place

   • Use an independent citizen assembly

Additional Goals

1. Stop government funding of politically active NGOs

   • Examples:

     • lgbt support groups ✅

     • Pro-lgbt research institution ✅

     • Pro-lgbt policy change advocacy (e.g. requesting Fox news to be regulated) ❎

       • NOTE: only government funding is not allowed, independent groups can still advocate, promote, and file requests for policy change

2. Find ways to make citizenship involvement easier

   • Saturday/after hours townhalls

   • Shift public facing events to be after hours

   • Make online feedback more visible/accessible

Notes

1. Any model is an upgrade over current first-past-the-post

2. Why ranked choice:

   • Most similar to current system

   • Does not require much, if any, expensive logistical changes

   • Represents who most people are willing to accept even if they don't get their main choice

     • Technically it may not be fully representative of what people want, but it does give voters the choice to have a backup option that they think is acceptable/better than the frontrunner for example

   • Promotes positive messaging because parties want to at least earn the second choice spot (e.g. Australia, and NYC apparently)

3. Per-vote subsidy party funding:

   • Cancelled by the conservatives

   • What is it:

     • Parties receive a small amount of money $2-$4 per vote they receive regardless of victory

     • Assuming they reach a minimum popular vote % threshold  Ruled against by Ontario

   • Why return it:

     • Helps support potentially popular parties that don't win seats in their first launch

     • Inexpensive, if every Canadian votes (incl. Kids) and at the rate of $4 per vote, it will cost ~$160 mil. We spend more on dumber things

     • Encourages Canadians to vote even if they think their choice won't win

     • Pressures bigger parties to actually put effort

   • How to use it with ranked choice:

     • First choice gets all the funding

     • Adds pressure on parties to not aim for second choice status only

     • Include backpay based on 2021 and 2025 to encourage votes for the future party

4. If ranked choice really benefitted liberals they would have implemented it when they had a majority