@chris I think part of the problem is that the way news, advertisements, and discussions are framed doesn't match how our electoral system works. Federally, we only vote one one thing: what person we want to represent our riding. Not which party gets how many seats, not who the prime minister is, not who the party leaders are, just which person represents our neighborhood, and the chair goes to the person, not the party they're in.Funnily enough, my view on this was cemented when Mark Carney's previous boss poached an MP from a Vancouver riding which had never elected a Conservative MP, but wound up with one anyway. People made so much noise, Stephen Harper said "this is getting old," and my immediate thought was "yeah, democracy's fucking ancient."
