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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Rerun, you consider the Liberals and NDP untrustworthy and extremist respectively. Likewise, many also consider the Conservatives extremist, regardless of whether you agree (we know you don't). As always, in the eye of the beholder. The problem with first past the post as evidence from now, is the party decides the agenda and not the members themselves. Harper runs things tight and everyone falls in line because thats how party politics work. So people aren't actually electing the people who will do best for them, but the people who will best toe the party line. That's a pretty awful sounding system to me.
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And to be fair, every party in power I can remember gets their members to toe party lines; that is what the Party Whip is for. Nature of our current political system.