http://www.christindal.ca/2007/01/23/one-year/ Shooting my mouth off since 2006 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.christindal.ca/2007/01/23/one-year/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Chris Tindal » Changing The Face Of Canadian Politics Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:28:32 +0000 http://www.christindal.dreamhosters.com/?p=129#comment-252 [...] I also want to take a moment to refute the somewhat strange argument that this non-partisan cooperation somehow subverts democracy. It is, in fact, our current electoral system that subverts the will of the electorate when only 1/3 of Canadians can elect a Prime Minister who then presumes to have an unquestioned mandate, while over a million Green Party voters in the last two elections have not had their votes counted towards electing an MP. [...] [...] I also want to take a moment to refute the somewhat strange argument that this non-partisan cooperation somehow subverts democracy. It is, in fact, our current electoral system that subverts the will of the electorate when only 1/3 of Canadians can elect a Prime Minister who then presumes to have an unquestioned mandate, while over a million Green Party voters in the last two elections have not had their votes counted towards electing an MP. [...]

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