I love ya, lil, but I can't agree with this at all. Part of the reason (aside from spending limits) that our democracy is so much more broad than the US's is that we have a multiple party system, instead of two parties (a left and right). What we SHOULD have is some sort of Proportional Representation, or Ranked Ballot. Even though neither of these strategies are perfect either, the result of either attempts to prevent parties from winning with a Plurality, but not a Majority. First Past the Post, the system we use now, has the unintended consequence of killing off smaller parties until there are only two competing parties.I'm very angry at the NDP-GREEN-LIBS for not creating a general progressive party. Every time one of them phones me -- which is all the time - I say "unite the left and I'll give you money." Or some version of "get over yourselves."