The problem isn’t with winner-take-all electoral systems, it’s a problem within Canada’s political parties.
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Electoral reform could curse Canada with a Parliament full of Trumps
Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon is one of Canada's leading environmentalists. His book, The Conserver Solution (Doubleday) popularized the Conserver Society concept in the late 1970s and became the manual for those interested in incorporating environmental factors into economic life. An advisor to President Jimmy Carter's Task Force on the Global Environment (the Global 2000 Report) in the late 1970's, he has since been at the forefront of movements to reform foreign aid, stop nuclear power expansion and adopt toll roads. Mr. Solomon is a founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation and the executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions. He has been a columnist for The Globe and Mail, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the editor and publisher of the award-winning The Next City magazine, and the author or co-author of seven books, most recently The Deniers, a #1 environmental best-seller in both Canada and the U.S. .
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Brexit was the U.K.’s vote against a new socialist empire
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Sweden’s governments collapsing under weight of refugees
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Cold War II? Nyet
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Greece, the way out
The Greek government has only one sensible choice.
Russia’s Grentrance
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Pussyfooting with China
Western NGOs that operate in China stay silent to remain in the Chinese Communist Party’s good books.
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