Adam Gurri

So Canada frequently has a party that controls the majority of their parliament that has gotten well less than 50% of the vote, like well less, because there's multiple parties that are, it's a spoiler effect just like we see with presidents, right?

So there's that.

Alternatively, you can have multiple candidates that you're voting for.

And there's a few ways you can do it, but I'll pick my favorite, which is the party list version.

So you could have a voter could be faced with...

a different set of party.

They could be shown the party rather than the candidate.

And it says essentially that if you vote for this party, if we get one seat, this is the candidate that we'll get.

If we get two seats, this will be the next candidate that goes on.

So it's a list of candidates and it goes from the top to the bottom based on what percent of the vote they get.

But at the end of the day,

Almost everyone's votes goes to some party that gets some seats in the legislature.

So it's quite what they call proportional.

And it results every single time in more than two parties.

It's a multi-party system.

when i say i want things determined in a smoke-filled room what i really want are strong party organizations that have to compete in an extremely competitive party system um so i wanted i want things determined by the voters but i want the voters to be picking parties because frankly i think they already are in most cases um and and i think we should just institutionalize that better um uh

I also like it.

So why do I want the strong party part in particular?

I like to describe it as if it's a union for politicians.

So why do we like unions?