Comment 26956

By what? (anonymous) | Posted October 18, 2008 at 23:13:42

Proportional representation will only result in MP's who have no loyalty but to the party. They already sacrifice the needs of local constituents for the good of the party to some degree but with a new system, they won't even have any constituents to be loyal to. Got a problem and want to talk to your MP? Who is it and where are they? And why should they care about you when they are there for the party's interests and not yours. Maybe we should just have extra MP's to further bloat the government payroll...

Do we really want a system like in Israel where coalitions are put together by pandering to all sorts of extremist parties in order to get enough seats to govern?

People complain about the waste of money with this election but we will surely have elections far more often under a proportional system as governing coalitions fall apart... As for this election being a waste of money, we would have spent the same money in a year anyway so what's the problem? Would people be complaining if the NDP won the day?

There was not a single riding in the entire country where more voters wanted the Green party to be their representatives than any other party. Not even close. How does this complete lack of strong support anywhere in the nation warrant 23 seats in the house?

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