10-16-2015, 10:56 AM
(10-16-2015, 08:46 AM)MidTowner Wrote: Edit: Really, if your overriding concern is electoral reform, you'd be most interested in making sure we see a coalition government between the second and third parties, and should be voting for whichever party is polling third to prevent anyone from obtaining a majority. Mostly I think voters should get to know their candidates, and vote for the most component...
Except that we're in Canada. First-past-the-post with a single x on the ballot means that we're voting more _against_ a party than _for_ an individual. And party politics means that the individual matters so much less than the colour of the sign behind them.
Electoral reform'll help with the first part. A simple switch to Single-transferable vote would mean we could finally state our preferences verbosely on our ballots. Why Ontario had to try for MMP and why M. Dion had to advocate a completely fresh idea is beyond me...
I'm really hoping for a minority government. Co-operation and compromise, taking into account multiple different points of view... what's more Canadian than that?