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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
As CliffFletcher notes - FPTP forces candidates to play to the centre. Rep by pop pushes politics toward the extremes. Rep by Pop also eliminates the local representative.
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Not saying your necessarily wrong, but this isn't really true when it comes to Canada. The parties have been pushing further to the right for close to three decades now, so you can't really say they're staking out the middle. Besides which, do we want all of our parties to occupy the same spot on the spectrum and become virtually indistinguishable from each other?