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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
Or we could have proportional representation. I don't don't which one would be easier to realize.
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proportional representation is of course the obvious and most effective means of ensuring democratic representation to a population of constituents. There are precious few arguments against, even fewer legitimate arguments, that don't revolve around the established and indentured need for power and control of the political apparatus for the self serving few who have managed to attain and wield it.
While effective at a national level for the centre-right parties, Tories and reform, the amalgamation of what are otherwise distinct and diverse parties with a variety of cultivated political ideals into a monolithic voting block has been largely disastrous to the Canadian political landscape.
Look no further than down south as an example of what lays ahead for political systems that reduce the political process into a series of votes for a and b.
Given Alberta's distaste for anything but the status quo politically, I think it is highly likely that the rest of the country could see proportional representation be adopted provincially and then profered federally before the Alberta voter is inclined to vote for it.