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@JB-wr2lx It's NOT what Canadians want. Trudeau was elected with only 33% or so of the voters. That's fewer than the votes Hitler got in his hey day.
The problem is with the electoral system, which is two-fold.
1) 50% of the vote plus 1 takes the riding. As would 99.99% of the votes. This makes it possible that in a country with this system the majority voted against the party that actually assumed the government, as in Canada.
2) Permitting minority governments, where a party with less than 50% plus 1 assumes the government, as in Canada.
One solution would be to force coalition governments as practised in Germany and Israel, where parties with less that 50% plus 1 must form formal coalitions with a total of more than 50% of the vote.
But even this system has its problems, as the numerous elections in Israel have show.
The only long-term solution, as I see it, is a well informed electorate, and political candidates that are legally responsible for their promises and actions. The promises would become binding contracts if elected.
Another method would be earned votes, ie. voters would be able to earn more than one vote through certain meritorious achievements. The book "The Seventh Vote" writes about this in a tangential way.
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