Once powerful political party eyes changing Canadian first-past-the-post system as key to victory – Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The federal Liberals have been out of office for more than nine years now, their longest period on the opposition benches since Sir John A. Macdonald defeated Alexander Mackenzie in 1878. For most of the century after Macdonald’s death, Liberals dominated Ottawa: between 1896, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier took office, and 2006, when Paul Martin left…