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Originally posted by Mean Mr. Mustard@May 4 2005, 05:58 PM
You would need complete cooperation between parties, and it would be all but impossible to get a majority government. we would be going to the polls every other year at the best of times, and the stories of the past couple weeks would be happening all the time in Canadian politics, as they are much more cut-throat than those of Sweden for instance which uses proportional representation.
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Hard to say. Obviously majority gov'ts would be unlikely. But I see that as a good thing.
I think political parties can co-operate and work together. The current system does not reinforce that idea much because of the intense regionalism. But I think a lot of those problems go away with proportional representation.
Obviously it's just speculation. But it would be nice to see if it does work better because we all know the current system isn't doing a great job of representing everyone's interests.