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Absolutely. I'm also Canadian, and therefore sensitized to the issues surrounding FPTP. So far, Canada has somehow resisted the tendency toward a partisan duopoly, but that's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it means you can actually choose to vote for a progressive party, a moderate party or a conservative party (or a regional party). On the other, it means we get lots of bizarre artifacts, e.g. the 2008 election, in which the NDP had 18% of the vote but only 12% of the seats, while the BQ had 10% of the votes but 17% of the seats.


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