You guys can call it sour grapes, and thats fine. It's just totally logical though. If you were running a business would you let a guy with 40% ownership have sole control?
I get that the CPC won the most seats and yes that gives a majority. I don't dispute the validity of the election at all, and I supported a PR system for years....I'm sure that there is a thread around here that would show that.
Bottomline is that the majority now, and in the Chretien years (and going back even further probably to 1984, are results of electoral distortion, not representative of the wishes of the majority of voters.
With a straight PR system the BQ neve would've had more than 10-15% of the seats, the Greens would've had representation years ago and every vote actually matters.
As convinced as I am that this is the one way to run a democracy I also note that this will never happen. You would need a majority to do this, and once a party has that kind of power they aren't too fond of diluting that in the next election.
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