Should Canada Adopt Proportional Representation?
The purpose of an election is to provide a routine mechanism for selecting the individuals who will occupy seats in representative institutions. They provide citizens with periodic opportunities to review the government's record, assess its mandate, and possibly replace it with an alternative. There is a great variety of electoral systems, and they can engender radically different government compositions between them. Canada, Great Britain, and the United States use single-member plurality, while continental European liberal democracies…
