On the flip side, could we as a country or province agree to only accept USD at par? I doubt it would actually benefit us a significant amount, but personally I just hated being in a cashier position and needing to do extra work just for the entitlement of the American tourists to pay in “dollars”.
In fact we have a land border.
The point is we need alternatives that are an improvement over the status quo, not making the current options worse. In some cases it might mean making things cheaper (EVs), in other cases it might be improving the service even if the cost goes up a little (public transit). In any case no one’s going to switch to a much worse or more expensive product or service for environmental reasons, it needs to be better on its own merits.
We have our own system on the west coast and it works by just not getting cold enough. Some years it doesn’t work too well but this year it’s quite successful.
That’s not really what I meant. Most of the similar proposed proportional systems break down the proportional “evening out” to provinces or smaller regions. Theoretically (although extremely unlikely) if the Bloq lost with 50%-1 votes in every riding they’d have about 12.5% of the overall vote with 0 seats. They’d get 50 of the 62 seats regardless of anything else that happens anywhere else in the country.
The only positive about this idea is that strictly as a thought experiment you could look back at any given election and see how it would’ve turned out differently. As a real system this doesn’t account for regional representation.
As someone not from Ontario I’m pleasantly surprised with how he’s handling the issue and the stances he’s taking. I also have to acknowledge if I did live in Ontario and had to put up with his antics on literally any other issue I’d hate him. But from a holistic Canadian perspective I think it’s good. Sorry Ontarians.