Our Government, my view

[docstainton]

Ok so this is my take on how the election went, please this is MY oppinion in MY livejournal so only constructive comments please (I.E. you are allowed to offer contraditory arguments but in a collected and mature fashion

Comments

[kali_kali]

Yeah. Especially the 12 Green seats. That would make me very happy.

[matthais]

It does sound like a better balance of seats, yes. The only problem is how would each party select members for said seats if you went to a purely proportional vote? To me, that sounds ripe for cronyism and other shenanagans. I read about a proposal to do a bit of both...keep the riding system, but then add 100 seats to parliament and divvy out those 100 seats based on the popular vote. It's not perfect, but it helps smooth out the inconsistencies in your current system.

Then again, this is an opinion from an American, who's lower house of congress is elected pretty much the exact same way as your parliament and we elect our president by a convoluted system where winning the popular vote may still lose you the presidency. I still think your system is better...at least you have a choice of more than two parties.

[purplezart]

your proportional seat government totals to 299, but there are 308 seats in the House.

i'd also like to say that i really don't have a problem with minority governments. everyone always seems to bitch about how they "can't get anything done" blah blah blah... whatever, man. we don't have elections just so the party with the most seats does whatever they want for 4 years, or else why would anyone not in the government (ie the party with the most seats) even bother to show up? debating and arguing and hemming-and-hawing is a -good- thing to be happening in the House. after all, if they're going to pass laws, they should be laws that -everyone- wants.

yeah. that's my opinion. but i agree with what you said.

[trzero]

I think there needs to be a law that you cannot form a government without seats in the 3 big cities (I mean, come on, that's absurd, the country IS run by the three big cities, as they are the world-class (multicultural) centers and economic centers, etc.). The fact that they got ZERO urban seats is grounds for total forfeit, because Canada will fail if it reduces itself to a farm with an oil field (Harper would in a majority, too).

I voted (yes, from Tokyo!), I went Green, so I can complain about EVERYBODY! >=D. I am rather happy with the NDP growth though, that kicks! They also outweigh the Libs in the far-west and in one of the Praries.

I'd still much prefer proportional representation. The problem is that is totally unfavourable to any government in power by the current riding system, so no one would ever propose it in the house, however badly needed it is (and it is really, really, badly needed).