Reply #15: Regardless

[Canadian_moderate]

Of who won how many riding, proportional representation is more fair.

I do think that there should be a minimum (3% or so) to avoid some of the fringe parties. The Green Party would be just large enough to have representation.

If it done on a proncial-split basis each province would have representation based on each party's proportional vote in ach province.

For example, in Quebec the result would have looked more like this:

Bloc Québécois 42.1 % - 32 MPs
Liberal Party of Canada 20.7 % - 16 MPs
Conservative Party of Canada 24.6 % - 18 MPs
New Democratic Party 7.5 % - 6 MPs
Green Party of Canada 4.0 % - 3 MPs

Total - 75 MPs. Each party would have to name a list of proposed MP candidate and it would be up to each party to sort out their regional representation within each province. This system would also make it much easier to increase the number of women and minority Members of Parliament.

A very small province such a PEI could still have aminimum of 4 MPs, although the rounding of the number of MPs would be a little more tricky.

To be honest, I think this type of system would reinvigorate Canadians' interest in politics. It would make every vote count and we would never have any party impose its will on the people of Canada unless they had an absolute majority.