There are 27.4 million eligible voters in Canada. Of those, 1.4 million marked an "X" beside the NDP candidate giving them 26 seats. Another 850,000 voted for the Bloc, only in the province of Quebec, resulting in 32 seats. Look at those numbers again. But wait it gets worse. With just over 600,000 votes the Green Party of Canada now has...wait for it....3 seats! How can this possibly be???
The need for election reform is evident in the previous paragraph. NO WAY should this be a reality. You only run candidates in one province, get six hundred thousand fewer votes than another party, yet you have six more seats? WTH?? This is so wrong on so many levels. We need to fix this and now.
Yes our population is spread far and wide and yes most people are based in Ontario and Quebec but they are not the entire country. And they shouldn't have a bigger say than other places. But the idea that a party that runs in only one province can have more seats with fewer votes than one with significantly more votes is....well wrong.
Tomorrow I will talk more about the election but I really needed to get this off my chest tonight. Not really a rant but close. Night all!
Ang
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