Canadian Electoral Reform: Prohibit Political Parties, Elect Prime Minister on a Separate Ballot, Give All Provinces More Sovereignty (2025/09/17)
Originally written on 2025/09/17 in Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
Electoral reform in Canada has been discussed, but not talked about or thought through enough.
A big part of the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority government for 4 years and reign as Prime Minister for 10 years was his promise that the 2015 Canadian federal election would be the last under the first-past-the-post system.
Many forget or never realized he was an acting teacher before following in his father’s footsteps, but it is common knowledge that most actors will do or say anything to get their desired role.
It was no secret that Justin Trudeau’s hair, his willingness to take selfies with anyone on the street who asked, his willingness to change his appearance to try to make people like and trust him rather than doing so with his policy and actions (which worked with the beard during his daily COVID-19 addresses outside 24 Sussex, and backfired and rightly so with his dress-up session in India, and his face-painting sessions earlier in his life) and his attempts at appearing virtuous with his “feminist” policies and ties to charitable organizations (despite mistreating women in his own life and party, and orchestrating corrupt scandals that did more harm to charities and their work than helped them) wooed a lot of Canadian voters in his and his party’s favour in the 2015, 2019, and 2021 elections.
This is not just a “F*ck Trudeau” piece though, this is a “F*ck the Canadian Electoral System” (or rather “Ditch the Canadian Electoral System - Katy Perry misunderstood Canadian lingo and likely uses “F*ck Trudeau” flags as part of her daily meditative practices now).
To get elected and stay elected in Canada as simply a Member of Parliament [“MP”] (never mind to get chosen as the leader of a party of MPs and then lead your party to an election win to become Prime Minister [“PM”]) you must do everything you can to hide any mistakes or conflicts from your past (all humans have them, anyone who seemingly doesn’t has likely done their best to attack and silence those who they have hurt or know about the harm they’ve caused), pledge allegiance to one of three to six parties and wear their banding. You must stand by your party’s leaders and policies even if you disagree with them personally or it negatively affects the people in your riding it is your job to represent. And most MPs do whatever they can to stay elected as long as possible and put in their time to “earn” their taxpayer-funded multi-hundred-thousand-dollar pension because it will be very hard for them to find work elsewhere after having taken on such an extreme endeavour.
This all applies to Pierre Poilievre as much as Elizabeth May or Jagmeet Singh and definitely to Mark Carney, although Mark Carney took the additional corrupt step of finding a way to become Prime Minister without being elected, then calling an election immediately so there was a short campaign so all people would perceive of him is his “experience,” then get elected again in the “real” way to make it harder for the justified critics to make this sketchy maneuver more well understood by the Canadian public.
My main point though, is that it is the corrupt and nonsensical electoral system that has caused us to elect a narcissistic, corrupt Prime Minister in Justin Trudeau with a “Teenage Dream” level of maturity who is now a life-long retired vacationer and celebrity-dater on an $8 million pension to go along with the trust fund from his daddy Pierre Elliot Trudeau who was also Prime Minister from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984. And Mark Carney now seems to be just a more extreme “Me Generation” Boomer version of Justin Trudeau with his investment firm Brookfield benefitting from his control of the governing party (no wonder he led the country in the song “Whoa Is Me” after winning his minority government in April 2025).
My electoral reform proposal is simple, and I believe it would be very inexpensive to implement: prohibit political parties in Canada. All federal politicians should run as an independent, as their own person, with no bigger historical brand to back them up, and vote in the House of Commons based on their own values, and the values of the hundred-thousand or so people of their riding that they represent rather than simply being a talking head of a hive-minded cult-like party.
The Prime Minister should then be elected separately with the role of being a mediator in the House and a communicator and negotiator of the country’s interests to the rest of the world, aggregating the interests of all the elected MPs and more importantly all the Canadian citizens they represent, rather than fighting for their own personal interests over anything else.
Because the way I see things currently, the federal Canadian political parties do not care about all Canadians but just small segments of the population. The following are the six major federal Canadian political parties from my viewpoint:
Bloc Québécois
Bloc Alberta [+ Oil Wokers/Farmers/Fundamentalist-Christians/British-Loyalist-Descendants] (Conservative Party of Canada)
Bloc Big-City-Canada-Elitists-and-Sexual-Promiscuity-Promoters [or Taylor’s Version “Covert-Narcissism-Disguised-As-Altruism” ] (Liberal Party of Canada)
New Dumb Position [to appear unique but leech onto policies from governing party to get elected] Party (New Democratic Party [“NDP”] of Canada)
People-Without-Many-People-In-Their-Social-Life-Party (People’s Party of Canada)
Nature-Worship-Is-Cool-and-Other-Random-and-Unproductive-Ideologies Party (Green Party of Canada)
At this point in time, joining the United States of America would be a hard thing to do, but if it were ever to happen, it would make a lot more sense if Canada was broken up into 7 to 13 states rather than join as one “51st state” because of all the regional differences.
Why not adopt some of the U.S.A.’s principles of State sovereignty into the constitution here in Canada though? I believe all provinces and territories should be given more governing power and ability to legislate their own laws and social programs to meet their own localized social and economic needs rather than bow down and pay people in Ottawa to do most things for them.
I have joked with people that I actually think changing to the “United States of Canada” would make sense but that name would likely lead to a lot of shattered maple syrup jars and elbow dislocation nationwide.
“State” is in essence a synonym for “country” and although it is not exactly the same and not often compared, there are some similarities in the sovereignty of the U.S.A. states as the countries or “states” that are part of the European Union.
So if we changed from “provinces” to “states” here in Canada would people keep their hockey gloves on if the name “Canadian Union” was used as an official name for Canada instead?
Image created by Google Gemini after input by Jonathan M.W. Klassen.
Image created by Google Gemini after input by Jonathan M.W. Klassen.
I know I’m being a party pooper here (which is my intention) but wouldn’t it best if we made the House of Commons a place where common people are housed to have thoughtful, intelligent debates and discussions on policy to make the best decisions for everyone in Canada and the people they directly represent rather than serving what are moreso corporations than parties representing the general population?
If that were the case, I think Canada would become a more united and prosperous country that would allow for a fulfilling lifestyle for all Canadians which should be something that everyone would want to party about.