June 29th, 2004, 02:48 PM
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Re: OT: Canadian Federal Election
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Originally posted by Renegade 13:
One problem with seats based on popular votes:
How would you distribute the seats around the country?? Would you randomly distribute them? What? You could end up with a NDP incumbent in a riding that voted 70% Conservative...and THAT would not be right. They would not be getting the appropriate representation.
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I understand the problems involved in "How to distribute the seats" if they were given out by popular vote. But I think the 'Party leaders' could decide who goes to Ottawa to represent them, and as for 'the person with the most votes in a riding not geting to Ottawa' well, instead of voting for all these individual mp's just have the 'party-name' on the ballots. (and have all registered partied on every ballot.)
The Green party got close to 600,000 votes and as is 4.3% of the population has no representation in the house of commons. At the very least the 'Leader' of the Green party should have a seat in the house of commons.
Our system is far from perfect and never will be, but such is life. Nuf said.
Cheers! 
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