Liberals' Majority: Floor Crossing & Electoral Reform

0:00It's April 30th. This is Canada News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. Canada's liberal government just pulled off something wild, turning a minority into a majority without a single general election vote. It happened through MPs forecrossing from other parties plus a couple by election wins, giving them total control in the House of Commons for the first time like this. Opposition leaders are fired up. Your boss, Pierre Poilet, calls it dirty backroom deals and wants recalpetitions to force by elections in those writings. NDPs, Avie Lewis says, it just feels wrong, and a fresh poll backs that only one in four Canadians think floor crossers should finish their term. This spotlight's bigger issues with our single member plurality system, where the top bow getter in each riding wins, even without half the votes. Majority governments are rare with real majority support. The last was 1984 under Brian Moroni with 50.03 percent of.

1:00The popular vote, floor crossing anxious opportunism, it's a symptom of super strict party discipline where MPs vote with their party 99.6 percent of the time from 2015 to 2019. Proportional representation used in 130 countries matches seats to vote shares and pushes real collaboration without the drama. This is like British Columbia and Ontario have eyed switching, and Trudeau promised reform in 2015, but dropped it. With Liberals locked in now, it's time to demand real electoral change to fix democracy for good.