 | | 10-15-2008, 02:29 PM |
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| Quote: | Wow. That sounds great. Sign me up. I want that too.
Lets face it. The Bloc Party garnered less popular support than the NDP but managed to secure 50 seats to the NDP's 37. It is what it is. A purely regional party with national status and the ability to influence national outcomes although it only runs candidates in its home province and has no vested interest in the success of Canada as a whole. Give me a break. | Well, we're going with a system of representation by population so things like one party having more popular support but having less representatives in the House of Commons are bound to happen so what can we do about it?  We could have the electoral map reconfigured but that's something a lot of representatives have been lobbying for for years.
The BQ IS a purely regional party, always has been and always will be, it's not like they've ever claimed the contrary. But the federal law has no dispositions against these sorts of parties so any other province or territory could start a regional party too, it's the way the system works. |
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