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Originally Posted by Mathgod

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.

Did you vote NDP? They want to institute election reform:

The federal NDP favours something called mixed-member proportional representation, akin to the New Zealand system whereby every elector gets two votes, one for a local MP, another for a party list. (MMP was once recommended by the Law Reform Commission of Canada.) Says the New Zealand website explaining MMP, election results generally produce a Parliament with parties whose share of the seats “is about the same as its share of the party vote.”

MMP and other proportional-representation systems are quite democratic in the sense of matching shares of votes and seats. What would have happened to Premier Rachel Notley and her New Democrats under MMP?

The Alberta NDP, lacking a majority of seats under MMP, would have needed to cobble together an arrangement, perhaps even with the party it defeated, the Progressive Conservatives; or, it would have remained in opposition. Or it could have tried to govern month-to-month as a minority.

How could the victorious NDP have remained in opposition? Under MMP, the Progressive Conservatives, with 28 per cent of the vote, and the Wildrose Party, with 24 per cent, would have together eclipsed easily the NDP’s 41 per cent share of the popular vote.