POL111H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: North American Free Trade Agreement, Tactical Voting, Canadian Federal Election, 2008
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Benefits and drawbacks of canada"s single member plurality electoral. One of the most diverse and multicultural countries around the world, canada, is believed to portray a dishonest representation of its citizens because of its political system. Canadians believe in a big government, and so it is very important to portray an accurate representation to the public. Citizens and government officials believe canada contains a misleading political system in which the majority of the population is not being portrayed as accurately as possible. Canada uses the single member plurality electoral system also known as first past the post". This electoral method is used for selecting representatives into parliament. Liberalism in canada allows each voter to cast one ballot to one candidate. The vote is to represents a candidate that will best represent the voter in the house of. Commons, this is also known as representative democracy. Each candidate represents a geographical area, which is known as a riding.
