EricHiggin said:
I hate not being able to choose the P.M. separately. My riding would rather vote liberal as they tend to be better for farmers more often than not, but we clearly wanted Trudeau out, so were forced to vote for the next best thing which looked to be conservative. I don't think just a pop vote works though. It may work now still, but the rural areas don't grow yet the cities do, and the cities tend to favor liberal, so a pop vote by itself could be a problem eventually as well. |
That's democracy though.... This election my vote didn't count at all with the winner takes all system. Which also influences people to vote for one of the big parties instead of one of the smaller ones they feel more aligned with.
It's customary that the PM comes from the biggest party, not much you can do about that. It would be weird to have a PM from a minority party. I originally come from the Netherlands which works with a popular vote system while also voting for the PM sort off. You vote for the candidate in the party you want to see as leader of that faction. The biggest party's faction leader becomes PM.
The disadvantage is that it makes it much easier for a populist party to take ground. Dutch politics are a mess as well.
