06-21-2018, 10:01 AM
(06-21-2018, 09:34 AM)jgsz Wrote: Remember that Ford got only 40% of the vote. And I am so sick and tired of majority governments that never seem to have more than 50% of the vote. If we had proportional representation we would have an NDP/Liberal coalition government representing 53% of the voters. As it stands today, we have a sham democracy!
No system is perfect. I work with people from Germany and New Zealand, who both have proportional representation, and their experience is that you wind up with many different parties, none ever broad enough to get anything near a majority, none of their other large competition willing to work with them, and the minor parties able to crown the winner by extracting very extreme portions of their platform from whoever they crown. Often this can be extremely xenophobic in its result.