• acargitz
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    Canada also has a FPTP system and we have like 5 federal parties. But it’s also a Westminster parliamentary system that allows temporary alliances, minority governments, support and supply agreements and other power-sharing arrangements.

    The American system is unique in their imperial presidency and aristocratic Senate and supreme Court, where so much power is concentrated in so few people for such a long time that every election becomes a high stakes cosmic event.

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      Canada also has a FPTP system and we have like 5 federal parties.

      Canadians were promised electoral reform recently, what happened?

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        Politicians didn’t keep their promises after being elected.