How the Longest Ballot protests seek to impose an unwanted and unworkable future on Canada (iPOLITICS)
A functioning democracy depends on a shared commitment to its foundational rules. When a group decides those rules no longer serve its agenda, it can choose persuasion or sabotage. In Canada, a movement known as the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC) has unequivocally chosen the latter. Under the guise of advocating for electoral reform, this group is engaged in a calculated campaign of systemic disruption, weaponizing the democratic process against itself. Their tactics are not legitimate protest but procedural blackmail, designed to manufacture chaos to the point where politicians and the public capitulate to their demands. By flooding by-elections with dozens, and soon potentially hundreds, of non-serious candidates, they seek to coerce the country into adopting proportional representation — a system fraught with dangers that Canadians have wisely and repeatedly rejected. The LBC’s campaign, which has roots in the satirical Rhinoceros Party, has been marked by a clear and deliberat...