Yes, let’s remember the promised reform of the voting system, as proposed by Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, president of the New Democracy Movement (“Let’s remember the promised reform of the voting system”, The duty, May 13). He is right to remind readers of the To have to a written promise from Prime Minister François Legault who, on May 9, 2018, had signed the commitment to carry out this reform during a first mandate of the CAQ.
I have not taken off since, on December 17, 2021, just before the break for the Christmas and New Year holidays, a member of François Legault’s cabinet informed Mr. Charbonneau that the project had been abandoned by Mr. Legault. However, a bill had been prepared by Sonia LeBel. The latter recently affirmed that the CAQ was committed to tabling a bill, but not to carrying out the reform of the voting system. Are we taken for leftovers?
What this event tells us is that the current government is often guided by partisanship when making decisions. A reform of the voting system would have caused the CAQ to lose a few seats, because with 37.4% of the 66% who went to vote, the CAQ obtained 25% of the votes in 2018 and holds 75% of the seats. It was certainly the backbenchers who argued that the reform should be set aside, because many would have lost their seats. That would have been fair, because when you govern with three citizens out of four who did not vote for the party in power, there is something incongruous, and that creates an arrogant government that can multiply errors by thinking that he is always right.
On October 3, the National Assembly should be rebalanced. If all the separatists who wanted to drive out the Liberals in 2018 by voting for the CAQ returned to the fold…
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