I'm with GGG here, I think that the way our system is structured the amount people are talking about a personal "mandate" is over blown. Generally we know allot more about the parties and the incumbents than individual candidates
The majority of people look at the party, or an incumbent before they vote for a person. I am not different, I vote for and against Incumbents, and for or against parties, because I am happy or unhappy with them, and honestly don't know enough about the challengers.
I hate to be critical of democracy because it is great in theory. But under informed voters and lack of individualism in the MLAs/MPs are huge problems that plague Canadian politics. People voted for the Party, the Party will make the decisions, its to bad but that's our system.
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