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Govern themselves, and the country, accordingly!? Accepting minority mediocrity ?! How uninspired ! How boring ! A lack of imagination !

Didn’t we end up in this situation because the leaders and campaigns failed to inspire or present new ideas?! A lack of a coherent vision of where the country is going.

More proof that Canadians are slow and risk averse and acting in regional self interest.

I don’t have the answer but I’m hoping someone can come up with some ideas to reach beyond the geographic and demographic divides. It’s been done before and I think we can do it again.

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I'm always disappointed when articles like this fail to acknowledge that the issues or concerns the writer identifies are a consequence of the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, and nothing else. That's right, nothing else.

"The country remains divided by region and demography" only because of the perverse electoral incentives caused by FPtP. Divisiveness is good politics under FPtP. It's bad for public policy, but it's good politics in an election campaign.

Canadians in every region and from every demographic--in every electoral district--voted for Liberal, Conservatives, NDP, and Green candidates. You can be sure, too, that there would even have been votes for the Bloc Quebecois had the party ran candidates across Canada.

The problem is First-Past-the-Post. The problem is NOT Canadians.

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