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12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The case for proportio... · 1 reply · +1 points

But it isn't that just MMP, which was rejected in referendums in Ontario in 2007 and Prince Edward Island in 2004 by wide margins (36% to 61%)?

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The case for proportio... · 2 replies · +2 points

Question for the Maclean's hoi polloi: if you choose any electoral system in canada, what would it be? You can say FPTP, if you do not want any changes.

See choices here: http://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es/esd?toc

I'd probably go with MMP, myself.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The case for proportio... · 2 replies · +4 points

Ireland has had STV since independence. IIRC, districts with 3 tend to produce less proportional results; you need something like 5-7 seats for it give give reasonable proportional results. As for the system itself, while does give the voter a lot of control, it's really hard to count properly or understand. We would wait much longer to get election results.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A personal reflection ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Given that McNamara ran the Vietnam War, and Rice and Wolfowitz were involved in the Iraq War, I highly doubt you could say they 'succeeded'.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The case for proportio... · 4 replies · +4 points

I read that there were proposals in Ireland to junk STV and in Germany to junk MMP for FPTP, but nothing came of it. The two referendums in Ireland failed, and nothing came about in Germany. Incidentally, if PR does come to Canada, it will be probably either of these two systems.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The case for proportio... · 0 replies · +3 points

"I was back at Easter and realized there is a shell of a party in play there."

There's a shell of party everywhere now.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Commons: The last ... · 0 replies · +5 points

"The people have spoken, the bastards."

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Yesterday's tomorrow · 1 reply · +5 points

I was thinking if the NDP surge materialized, and Wells wrote a sequel to Ride Side Up, what would the title be?

Left Side Up? Left Behind? On the Updip?

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - From our vote-rich uni... · 0 replies · +1 points

Kind of surprising the Conservatives out poll them here.

12 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A country gets its bac... · 0 replies · +1 points

I don't think the Bloc is going away, since there are probably ridings that strongly separatist and will probably continue to vote as such. It might be the case that they have less of presence.

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