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Old 12-29-2015, 02:51 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
And the SCC will laugh and toss it out because the Conservatives don't have a constitutionally guaranteed right to be competitive in elections. The only ones who could likely challenge it on Constitutional grounds are the provinces, if the new system results in less seats for Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, or if individual citizens can demonstrate that the new system violates their right to vote.
It would be hard for any new system to do that more than FPTP (where about half the votes don't count).
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