How about we get rid of political parties and ban them from identifying themselves as 'X party' to begin with, huh? After all, political parties aren't even supposed to be part of the system. At the same time, ban these political parties from funding specific member campaigns. At the heart of it is how these MP's are backed by these so-called parties - which enables these parties to 'whip votes'. It all functions like a mafia group right now. Money is the reason why these political parties exist, but it also keeps out those that deserve/want to serve Canadians out due to the lack of funding because of ideological purity tests of bullshit.

Would it be a mess? Of course, at the start. But maybe a new system would emerge that would actually represent each constituents better rather than being held by a ideological gun-point via party funding.

We desperately need voting and government reform.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering our first PM was a conservative, how do you figure political parties weren't supposed to be part of the system? Also, it's very anti free society to restrict freedom of association.

[–] GodofLies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Good point. This is why I pointed out how the system is actually working underneath. It's all about how the funding and money is flowing in this so called party system. It's by association and purity tests. It's not really by "you got in because you have actual good ideas for the greater good of society and humanity". It's about "they/him/her scratched his back so now we scratch their backs".

Then this would lead to the result of - how do we get money influence out of politics? In a simple way of explaining, one way would to do it would be to publicly fund each nominee/contender/incumbent BUT make the funding equal, make the media coverage equal, etc. Have an unified standard of how these metrics are presented. Even their promises presented, measured and compared. These are just ideas, but it's not impossible to do these. I'm sure there's many ways we can to level the playing field to an extent where it's not always big money crushing everything.