09-11-2018, 09:47 AM
(09-10-2018, 09:30 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(09-10-2018, 09:19 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Oh, I agree that we should change how the elections work, I just don't know how to get it to happen without the governing (majority) party supporting it. (I had some hope that the Liberals would do that on the federal level, but unfortunately that seems to be completely dead.)
Yeah, I have no idea how to get it changed either, but many countries have managed to figure it out. The liberals federally are one of the few times I've been truly disappointed by a politician.
Many countries have proportional representation, but most of them have had it for a long time (about 150 years in France and Germany, for example). Not many have changed their systems -- and even when they have, it has usually been in the elected party's self-interest.