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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

I mean, in the US you vote for President, House of Representatives, Congress, and Senate.

That seems like a lot of political bodies to run the country at the national level.

In Canada, we elect a local representative of the running parties. Whoever get the majority vote, will win a seat in the Parliament. Whichever house has the most seats gets elected Prime Minister. But wait...there's more. Much like how in the states each state holds a certain amount of influence towards who gets elected President, the same is done in Canada. So you take where I'm from, Newfoundland. We get the set amount of seats in Parliament.

The issue lies in that the 4 East Coast provinces essentially don't matter in any election. We only control 32 seats, which is only good when the polls are neck and neck. Take our previous Prime Minister, who btw I fucking hate because he was a goofy dipshit far far worse than Justin Trudeau. Trudeau is a saint compared to that asshole. Stephen Harper was a scourge on our country for nearly 9 years, who took over shortly after my personal favorite Prime Minister Jean Cretien left office in 03. We had Paul Martin in between who wasn't bad.

Harper continued to win because he focused his campaign on Alberta(34 seats), BC(42 seats) and I believe Ontario(121 seats), meaning the rest of the country suffered as those 3 provinces prospered.

It's a very flawed system. I don't know how to change it, but it essentially means you can just ignore any province with less than 15 seats and focus on the bigger provinces making promises you'll never keep.