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Originally Posted by robaur
Proportional representation has been discussed at length in Canada for a very long time. The downside of that is it would become almost impossible to form majority governments. In reality, majority governments are needed to run a country.
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False. Minority governments require consensus-building. It is infinitely preferable to dictatorship terms.
This current system basically gives the finger to all Canadians who do not approve of the job that the majority government is doing; it is especially troubling when said government only captured something like 38% of the vote, meaning that the other 62% of voters have no say at all in terms of policy decisions.