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I know there has been a bit of talk suggesting that we change the electoral system here in Canada. I know I wouldn't mind seeing some changes.
One thing that does bother me is that we do not directly vote for our PM. In my short life times all our PM's having been French-Canadian or their ridings are in Quebec (Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretian, and Mow Paul Martin). My personal feelings on having a French-Canadian PM is that they spend far too much time worrying about the Sepratists and not enough about the rest of the country.
Yes, there have been a few non-French-Canadian PMs, but they haven't lasted very long in office (ie. Joe Clark, Kim Campbell).
My idea was that we still have ridings and we still elect a representative for that riding. Then the party with the most seats would be come the ruling party and then the ruling party would select a few representitives from that part and the the Whole of Canada would elect from the group the person to be Prime Minister.
So it wouldn't be the leader of the party that automatically became PM (provided he won his seat) it would be some chosen by the people.
Does that make sense?
What do you think? Any ideas of your own?
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