Will latest design of Canadian election reforms see an explosion of smaller parties in Parliament? | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised during the recent campaign that 2015 would be the last federal election to employ “first-past-the-post.” This is the electoral system familiar to Canadians, in which the candidate who wins a plurality of votes in each riding is elected to Parliament. In its place we would see the introduction of a more…