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Have you thought about listening to, and calling into Northern Exposure?

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Also, for your own edification. Canada in RL, uses the first past the post system that once was used in the UK. Canada became independent in 1867, when the UK used that system. The UK has since switched to a proportional system, Canada held a referendum a few years ago to accept a new proportional electoral system but it was defeated leaving us with this terrible and unfair system. As an example, Canada has a majority Conservative government, chosen by less than 20% of the vote.

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Or rather, less than 20 percent of the adult citizens eligible to vote. They actually got 40% of the vote.

Goran Thrax

An MPP with Sweden is definitely something to be discussed! As for Indonesia, I've seen some of their media and they seem neither happy nor angry about our MPP with them.

As far as the new political module goes, well we can't say to much without first seeing the results of the first ones. We can only predict

Hmm... well that kinda sucks. I think the first-past-the-post system works in America because of the way Congress is set up and our two party system. Typically, whoever wins has more than 50% of the vote.

Plus Americans have our weird electoral college system left over from the early days of American government.

I think the system EPIC used in their CP nominations is a great way to do democracy, its just expensive to run on a large scale

Good show, but needs less music.

I don't know if I have ever honestly heard anyone outside of the US say that the US political system works before.

Goran: Actually I believe it was only BC and Ontario that had that proposal, not the country as a whole. The other difference to the one that was proposed in Ontario anyways, was that most of the seats (75😵 were determined by regional voting similar to now, while the other seats were distributed in such a way as to make actual vote counts accurate by propping up the...

..seat counts of those parties that had gotten lots of votes, but not actual seats because regionally someone else had beat them. The people who won those seats were on a pre determined list that was to be published prior to the election so people knew who was on them. I know because I volunteered for a political group that was handing out info on them prior to that election.

I thought about not doing the music. I just figured it might be too boring to just have me talking. Its kinda hard to pick different music each time.

I may just need to sit at a piano and record a jingle or play myself in 😛

A little something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCF6hgEfto

Goran Thrax at least our first past the post system allows for stable governments that are not forced to form coalitions with parties that they hate.

Yes, heaven forbid that our parties be force into working together with one another.

The thing with coalition governments is that they usually fall apart very quickly when the parties that formed the coalition disagree on a bill. This can be seen in countries that use proportional representation (Israel, Holland, Italy). What first-past-the-post does is makes elections less frequent and makes governments more stable. The solution to first past the post is have more people vote in the federal election as only about 68% of eligible voting Canadians do vote in the election and.....

......then the results only reflect the wishes of 68% of eligible voters. What I like though is that the former political module was just like the real life module of Canadian voting except that there is a Presidential vote whereas in Canada the federal election is the Congressional election and whoever is the Party President of the party with the most "congress" members becomes the prime minister. Overall though, a coalition in Canadian politics has very big implications......

.....that could cause the government to call another federal election.

Good luck i will start watching soon

Ahh.. Coldplay (:

Viva La Vida.

Gotta love Coldplay!

Viva La Vida is my favourite song. It was nice to hear at the beginning of your podcast. 🙂

voted, nice one.