A Glimpse in the Future: The Liberal Democrat Party

Check out this Article on the prospects of a possible liberal democrat party of the future of Canadian politics.


There are a few major implications I though up that the new party will have on our electoral system:
- it may start a trend of more formal and lasting coalition parties
- liberal voters and democrat voters may possibly be pooled into one pool of votes, trumping the conservative party's votes drastically- unfair distortions in the electoral system 
- the moral implications the party's wide fan base will have on the minority governments- we may actually have a consistency of majority governments instead of the trend of minority governments in contemporary Canadian politics: although this will increase the scope of legitimacy (because of the wider majority), it may make simultaneously make the minority even smaller, and hence easier for their interests to be ignored
- the new liberal democrat party may be unable to meet the needs of all of their followers and hence may face opposition shortly after their establishment

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