Status-Quo

The Election System that we currently have and have had for as long as I am aware of is known as 'First-Past-The-Post' or FPTP. It is an ancient system that could easily be argued that it is UNDEMOCRATIC.

It is a very simple system - the Candidate that receives the most votes WINS. It does not take into account the votes against a Candidate. It does not set a necessary target of votes a Candidate needs to win. A Candidate can win a seat with well below a majority of votes, in fact it is very rare where a Candidate will receive 50% of the votes in this system (unless there is just 2 Candidates running).

FPTP is an Electoral System that perpetuates a system where THE MINORITY GOVERNS THE MAJORITY - opposite of the DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

The system we have perpetuates this state of THE MINORITY RULING THE MAJORITY, I can demostrate this with the last two MAJORITY Federal Governments.

• 2000         Liberal        40.8%PV           57.1%HS          172 seats
• 2011         Conservative     39.6%PV       53.9%HS        166 seats

 The actual percentage of the House Seats does not really show how much of a MAJORITY this really is. To fully understand how overpowering these MAJORITY'S are we need to look at the figures of the OFFICIAL OPPOSITION.

• 2000      Reform        25.5%PV           21.9%HS         66 seats
• 2011      NDP            30.6%PV           33.4%HS       103 seats

  These Majority Governments of 2000 and 2011 have such overpowering MAJORITY in the HOUSE that the ruling PARTY can do basically anything they want and not care what the OPPOSITION might be concerned about.

The Prime Minister is able to act like a KING OR QUEEN and BULLY the HOUSE as such. The Prime Minister is often BULLYING his own party members. The PARTIES even have a position in the PARTY called the PARTY WHIP, whose job it is to keep the other PARTY MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE IN LINE WITH THE PRIME MINISTER - GOOD TITLE. There is no respect for the opposition parties or for Canadians at all, it is completely self-serving to the party in power.

This is a form of FEUDALISM and definitely not a form of DEMOCRACY. In this FEUDAL SYSTEM we elect our LORD OR KING every 4 or 5 years, the CANADIAN VOTERS are the PEASANTS and receives about as much respect as a KING gives one's PEASANTS.

This is all possible because of the FPTP ELECTORAL SYSTEM. If the Candidates needed to receive 50% of the Popular Vote in order to be elected there would not be this disparity between the % of Popular Vote and the % of House Seats.