I know I’m a partisan, but Elizabeth May rocked that debate. I’m particularly thrilled that she named fixing our broken electoral system as her number one priority. It probably wasn’t the answer a focus group would have told her to use, but it was the right one. (And now, as I type this, it’s also the topic of the first question in the post-debate press scrum.) Also worth noting that I still can’t remember the last time Jack Layton even mentioned fair voting. Got anything to say, Dipper Chick?
Also, special thanks to the CBC for not repeating last night’s error.
Me too. I shouted out loud and leaped out of my seat (despite a bad back!) when I heard that.
I’ve always insisted, through my work on poverty and as a woman living with disability in deep poverty, that electoral reform should be the first order of business for any government. No other issue – poverty, environment, crime, etc. – will get addressed until democracy is restored and the voters’ choice is honoured.
Had I been undecided and not already a Green, May would have sold me on that alone.
I was surprised she picked PR too, and glad she got in a forbidden joke about finishing the shed, cementing her place as the most approachable of the leaders.
1. Give it a rest, Chris. Jack is regulary promoting voting reform.
2. Good for Elizabeth for raising it tonight – and for delivering an honourable, rousing performance all around.
I’d love it if that were true Jaytoo. Got any recent examples you can point to?