So, yeah, it's not great how the election went. Luckily our little guv'mint isn't as high-stakes as our big brother on the bottom-bunk, but it's disappointing.
Yet, unlike the bulk of the worlds problems, this one has a single crystal-clear answer. It is this: Replace our preposterously antiquated regional, first-past-the-post voting system with some sort of proportional representation. Why? Because then the party that wins 7% of the votes will get at least some seats, while the party that gets 10% doesn't get 50. Because then people's second choices and, perhaps more importantly, last choices would be taken into consideration. But most of all it would kill dead that cynical, shrewd and calculating democracy-killer known as 'strategic voting'.
We accidentally played a benefit for strategic voting back in Winnipeg. It was fun and all, but we thought it was a simple fundraiser to help make people aware of the damage that those crazy Tories were doing to Canada's rare and marvelous arts funding. But sadly people were also encouraging strategic voting, which I'm afraid this dude cannot abide. Let's not be cynics, folks. Vote for who you want to. Don't be coy, Roy. But electoral reform is badly needed to help us optimists not feel like we're pissing up a rope.
