Currently, Canada's electoral system is based on a "first past the post" system. The candidate with the most votes in a riding wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its Member of Parliament. The Governor General asks the Members of Parliament to form a government, which is normally the party whose candidates have won the most seats; that party's leader generally becomes Prime Minister. An absolute majority of the electorate is not needed, and is rarely achieved. As a result, power has been held by either of two parties for most of Canada's history. The party whose candidates win the second largest number of seats becomes the Official Opposition.
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@4PVMH9K4yrs4Y
A system like Germany or New Zealand would be a system for Canada
@B462G5W4wks4W
We should switch to a ranked based voting system so we can vote for multiple candidates in order of who we support the most to least.
@B3HWP7R2mos2MO
No we should switch to the system where you put your favourite too least favourite political parties/President
@9HV5QFW1yr1Y
No, Canada should be a single-party socialist state and adopt a system similar to the National People's Congress in China.
@9FN75NHNew Democratic2yrs2Y
complicated, it can be good but proportional rep. can give a possible risk of extremist parties gaining power that would otherwise not be in power
@9FHKZYX2yrs2Y
STV-PR. Instant Run Off AND Proportional Representation. Checkmate, nerds.
@9DTTBXP2yrs2Y
Not enough knowledge to say
No. Implement a series of run-off elections after those candidates receiving less than a certain amount of votes are eliminated. A candidate wins ONLY after securing 50.1% of the vote.
No, just straight up do participatory democracy
@8ZN4YG43yrs3Y
No, this could make our government's ability of good governance/efficiency to be compromised, as the government is made up of a broad coalition of different views. I get why people think this is a good idea, as it could preserve a lot of really good ideas that in a FPTP system could be at more risk of being fully eliminated/scratched from budgets, but it could make people lose faith in an already good system that works, and that's why I'm against it.
I would prefer a system such as ranked balloting, in which individual people rank their preference in terms of candidates, because most people, when going to the polls, have an idea of at least two or three people they're going to vote for/allows candidates to win based on broad support, rather than pandering to their voter base only.
No, switch to a Sortition system
@8VW3N8D4yrs4Y
Try it for a little bit, if it results in fighting then quit it
@8VRG7SV4yrs4Y
@8V99D274yrs4Y
Yes. Governments with a majority face very little accountability.
@8RRKHHQ4yrs4Y
Don’t understand enough to warrant a relevant answer
@shaelynj4yrs4Y
no, but i do think our system should change
@8NYFJXS4yrs4Y
We need to reduce the numbers of metropolitan representatives and implement an electoral college of sorts.
@8JZWBZQLibertarian4yrs4Y
No, it should switch to knowledge-tested sortition of a large pool to balance reasonable efficiency with greater democracy
@8HFWDWCLibertarian5yrs5Y
Yes, and votes should be weighted based on the riding's GDP per capita (and possibly other contributions), so that the voters who contribute more to the country have more of a say (thus making the process more meritocratic).
First past the post is best, as there are a lot of ridings that have numerous competitors, and could take a long time to have results settled. It could also weaken our faith in democracy if there's nobody to lead government, so I would stick with FPTP as people are fallible and I don't want the systems to also be that way.
@9BK2RQ62yrs2Y
I feel that if we moved toward proportional representation, this could aggravate many issues even further, and encourage regionalism even further, making it hard to govern for the majority of people, but also erode faith in our institutions.
@9BJJPZS2yrs2Y
No, we should adopt hte Approval Vote
@9BCZWQP2yrs2Y
I know enough about this to make a decision about this topic.
No, I think that this could lead to breakdowns of our efficient democratic system, as in PR the government would have to cater to those within fringe movements, such as the People's Party of Canada, as well as smaller parties in order to gain a majority, and this could create a lot of deadlock and erode people's trust within the constitutional democratic system here in Canada, which has also happened within European democracies such as Germany to some extent, and republics such as the United States of America, as congress is almost always in a deadlock (with some rare exceptions.)
@Spamophobiac4yrs4Y
We should use ranked ballot PR
@8VFPMFX4yrs4Y
The voting system is archaic and should be completely reworked. No one party should run the country, but a collective of all party’s. Each year every party gets voted, but only one win with a few seats of the other party’s. . The people want choices, and having a single voice narrows the mind. Allowing the heads to be voted in provincially to allow them to collectively run the country as a team making compromises to address everyone’s issues. I’m not expert but somethings got to change.
@8VBZB3Q4yrs4Y
Get rid of parties all together. Consensus government
@8V23KN6New Democratic4yrs4Y
No, eliminate parties and switch to the Condorcet voting system. The MP's will elect the prime minister.
@8V239Q44yrs4Y
Ranked Choice Voting System
@8TYXSVHNew Democratic4yrs4Y
No, switch to the Condorcet voting system using technology for voting. If no clear winner (Condorcet paradox), then use the Instant Runoff system.
@8TXVXML4yrs4Y
No, open to a Ranked ballot system, where you get a score for the place on the voter's ballot. 1st = 10 pts, 2ns = 8 pts 3rd = 6 pts 4th = 4th pts 5th = 2pts and 6th = 1pt
@8TVBZK74yrs4Y
Ban all political parties. They are where the money gets laundered. Ban all political contributions.
@8TV9K364yrs4Y
Yes, and move most issues of federal jurisdiction to provincial jurisdiction.
@8TJC4TF4yrs4Y
No, switch to a Condorcet voting system. It has more fair and representative outcomes than the instant runoff system. It can be done easily with the technology we have compared to when the instant runoff system was introduced in 1870.
@8TMS3BNNew Democratic4yrs4Y
no we should switch to a ranked choice voting system to help accuracy in elections
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