wtf . how is this humor ok ? <| sep |> I am absolutely celebrating as a LPC voter last election . Electoral reform without a referrendum is a preposterous idea people are only willing to accept because they don ' t like FPTP . It would allow any future government that got a plurality to claim they had the consent of the people to change the electoral system . The lack of a referrendum makes meddling with the electoral system easier . Allowing a government to change the electoral system without a referrendum is also ignoring the massive conflict of interest , the fox guarding the henhouse . The LPC or any party looking to change the electoral system are very unlikely to do so , even if changing the electoral system would make voting more fair , if it went against the interests of their party . It ' s almost a certainty that bias will be introduced into any electoral reform effort , and believing the liberals or any other party can be trusted to reform the system without any check on what they do by the public is in my mind ludicrous . Experts should be involved in deciding what we change the electoral system to , but the public should be involved to make sure the experts aren ' t pulling a fast one . I very much doubt the people skeptical that we should trust voters over Experts would be singing the same tune if the CPC was in charge . I very much doubt that if we changed the electoral system to say perportional representation , the CPC got in charge , and promised electoral reform away from PR , the same people would be saying We need to put all our faith into the experts , we can ' t trust the public if we put it to the vote . The argument for changing the electoral system without a referrendum comes down essentially to It costs money and I don ' t want ordinary Canadians to have that decision , they might say no . It ' s a bad idea promoted by shortterm thinking . The best thing to do in the long term interests of our democracy is to ensure that everybody that wants to change the electoral system both now and in the future first has the consent of the majority of its people . I voted for the liberals and was expecting them to put forth a referrendum from the start because that ' s what the BC liberals did when they wanted to reform the electoral process . I also expected them to get a minority based on preelection polling and be kept in check by other parties . I didn ' t expect the federal liberals plurality of voters propel them to a majority , and for the LPC to start rationalising why they don ' t actually need a referendum to change the electoral system . Even if the referendum was 50 % 1 vote , anything would be better than allowing the liberals to railroad through electoral reform .