What does the term 'representative democracy' mean? If our elected representatives do not reflect the cross-section of ideas and demographic that voted, they are not representative. If they are representative, why have we never achieved gender balance in the House of Commons?

True, we have survived crises with the present system. More realistically, we would have avoided the 1995 crisis and others if our electoral system had not given so much power to the largest regional minorities, such as the Bloc Quebecois.

We need only look to the carnage happening in the USA and UK today to see what dangers lurk in distorting the will of the people by a bad electoral system. No FPTP 'democracy' is safe in today's world. Not even ours.