> Briefly, regarding the election reform issues you mentioned:

> I think the proposed new system will make it much more likely we
> will be electing a Prime Minister who is a 'Lame Duck'..

Oops..  I was talking about this as though it were a Federal
change where it would only be Provincial, at least at first.

The same basic problems are still there, just on a smaller scale.

A closer look at it shows it's not quite the same as the US
system where you can vote for the President separately.
It's more like, in a close vote, it could change who is elected
or change a majority gov't into a minority one where next to nothing
gets accomplished. It may give a few of the little parties some
seats in parliament that they normally wouldn't have gotten but
that just reduces the support for the party in power which has
the same effect.   I think it's more important to vote for the
party who's policies you most like (least hate?) rather than
splitting the vote to elect a local rep you like from another
party who will have virtually no power because he's not a member
of the ruling party.

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