[herbie]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Obviously he never wants to be PM....this system is horrible. It'll be coalition after coalition government with fringe parties being king makers. Look at Israel and Italy.

Yeah we used to laugh at Italy before it passed us in GDP

[andyt]

I thought Italy was always way ahead of us in GDP. We're only in the G7 to make the US feel less lonely, were added as an afterthought.

[bootlegga]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

It's going to be a bitch to bring in proportional representation due to our very spread out geography ... that is if we continue to elect representatives to be (supposedly) our local voices, thinly populated places like the Yukon, PEI will have a much smaller voice and populous places like Southern Ontario will completely run things without hope of input from anywhere else.

Most of you are in the West. I'm in Southern Ontario and vote-for-vote, I get less representation that any of you do but it's the only way to have a truly national government.

Actually, BC, Alberta & Ontario have average ridings of 125k each, while other provinces (like the Maritimes) have considerably smaller sized ridings (IIRC PEI clocks in at about 30K each), so we're in the same boat as you in Ontario are in.