This is also a basic problem with the first-past-the-post system, as has been explained and moaned about at length anywhere you care to look - whoever gets even a fraction of the total votes ends up with all the power. It's this that dooms Canada, more often than not, to a regime of regimes that command neither the majority of popular support nor even the majority of elected representatives.
(Oh, and let's not forget that those BQ representatives, who are being portrayed as home-wrecking psychopaths, were in fact duly elected by large numbers of people exercising their democratic rights in a secret-ballot election. Sounds pretty aboveboard to me. Asking whether a party like the BQ should exist is one question, asking why so many people feel it necessary for it to be formed and continue to exist is another - and one I'm glad I don't have to answer!)
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Date: 2008-12-02 11:39 pm (UTC)(Oh, and let's not forget that those BQ representatives, who are being portrayed as home-wrecking psychopaths, were in fact duly elected by large numbers of people exercising their democratic rights in a secret-ballot election. Sounds pretty aboveboard to me. Asking whether a party like the BQ should exist is one question, asking why so many people feel it necessary for it to be formed and continue to exist is another - and one I'm glad I don't have to answer!)