• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    This and how hard it would be to ever amend the constitution (y’know, to move away from FPTP, for example) are the biggest problems for Canadian democracy going forwards.

    It won’t sink us in the next 10 years, but past that who knows. History has a way of turning heroes into villains, and vice-verse.

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      Except the Constitution doesn’t stipulate FPTP. It defines how seats are allocated based on population and provinces and all but doesn’t say how to decide what MPs go in what seats. It doesn’t mention parties either.

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      Every time the constitution is on the table the country nearly implodes.

      Will all the provinces agree on a new constitution this time? It only led to two referendum the few last times we tried.