Summary
A record 7.3 million people have cast their ballots over four days of advanced voting in Canada’s election, marking a 25% increase over the 5.8m advanced ballots cast in the 2021 vote.
There are further indications the election campaign dominated by threats from Donald Trump has galvanized voters, including unusually high ratings for two debates last week.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is the frontrunner, though Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party is incrementally gaining ground.
This year, polling points to a two-party Liberal-Conservative race.
Two party systems spells doom. It enforces us vs them.
It’s the first indicator that something is wrong with the democratic system. Basically, democracy requires multiple opinions and have to be more nuanced than yes/no, or party1/party1. It has to be a discussion amongst the currently elected parties until an acceptable solution for the majority of members is reached. Thus only having two opposing parties will basically crumble democracy, since the discussion, the basis of democracy will not happen, and the minority will always loose.
And multi-party systems lead to coalition government, which disproportionately empowers centrist parties that will work with either the right or the left.
There is no electoral system without anomalies.