where she sleeps and bleeds on his bed.

4. What does the woman outside the pub say to Richard at the beginning of the book?

At the beginning of the book, Richard Mayhew, who is drunk and sick, meets an old woman outside a Scottish pub. The old woman then reads Richard's palm. In his hand, she foresees that Richard will go much farther than London, and the old woman warns him to beware of "doors."it by one vote or (say) one million votes, he/she wins the seat. The political party with the most seats will form government.

Unfortunately, FPTP is flawed in one important sense: popular support is meaningless.

Most of Canada’s federal governments have been formed with the winning party earning less than half of overall popular support. The only exceptions have been Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1900, 1904), Sir Robert Borden (1917), William Lyon Mackenzie King (1940), John Diefenbaker (1958) and Brian Mulroney (1984).

Here is the proverbial icing on the FPTP cake.

In the 2011 federal election, Stephen Harper and the Tories won a majority government (166 out of 308 seats) and earned 39.62 per cent of popular support. In the 2015 federal election, Trudeau and the Liberals won a majority government (184 out