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European Movement looking for support to increase Canada-EU
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If Canada joins the EU, Canadian representatives to the European Parliament would need to be elected via proportional representation, it's part of the requirements.
In either case (EU or no EU), we must push for the government to implement proportional representation, and that starts by getting organized: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.
I wrote this post about the objectives of the fairvote community.
As far as I know, !fairvote@lemmy.ca is the only online community dedicated towards this cause.
So a lot of the current work is building the movement, and getting those that already support the movement organized.
We know a federal election is coming up, and the more this movement grows, the more politicians will bend to our demands (as they should in a democracy).
I have volunteered with them in the past on two separate occasions.
I've never been paid by them or am contractually bound to them in any way shape or form, and this is still true at this point in time.
The election of EU representatives is separate from the election of representatives in parliament. Canada could end up like the UK was (in the good old days), with PR for the European elections and FPTP for its own national elections.
The odds of Canada joining the EU are technically non-zero but pretty damn close.
We defnitely need closer EU ties, but joining the EU probably isnt gonna happen.