Representation in the House

In the last election (May 2011) the Conservative Party won 39.6% of the casted votes and won 53.9% of the House Seats. How this can be called Government by Representation is beyond me. I am sure that the powers-that-be will have all kinds of generalization in how this is acceptable, IT IS NOT REPRESENTATION.

This 39.6% is deceiving as it is only 39.6% of the 61% that voted. It is not 39.6% of the Citizens of Canada that supported the Conservatives. If you project the 39.6% that the Conservatives received to the population of Canada is would be closer to 25% of the population. It is this 25% of the population that is GOVERNING all the Citizens of Canada, it is the MINORITY THAT GOVERNS.

The first thing that we need to change is this discrepancy between the % of votes received and the % of seats in the House. With 39.6% of the votes cast, should receive 39.6% of the House Seats, this is REPRESENTATION. I know the first objection will be that there would never be a MAJORITY GOVERNMENT. This is fine, this is REPRESENTATION. The Citizens of Canada are never that heavily one-sided on anything, only Parties are. This would also greatly defuse the different PARTIES in their obsession of winning, you cannot win a majority anyway.

With the ability of WINNING A MAJORITY greatly reduced, the Parties will return to their different philosophies and with the realization that they will have to work in a cooperative manner as opposed to a confrontational manner. This will greatly redefine 'Question Period' and other disrespectful behavior that has been past-practice in Government.

This simple step greatly reduces the POWER STRUCTURE and returns much of this POWER OF GOVERNMENT back to the CITIZENS where it belongs. 

In such a environment the individual representatives will have a balanced field to truly represent the Citizens that elected them. The Party's Dogma will have to be replaced with a more acceptable position with the House as a whole. Without a Party in a position of Majority, the House members as a whole would appoint representatives to different government portfolios.   As an example the Minister of Energy would be appointed by the House and will be responsible to the House as a whole, not just the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister would also be appointed by the House as a whole. We as Citizens have never elected our Prime Minister, the Parties do. Each Party elects the leader of their Party, and the Leader of the Party with the most seats in the House is the Prime Minister. This too leads to Power corruption, if the Prime Minister is elected by the Representatives would greatly increase the Power of the individual representatives. The Representatives are directly responsible to the electorate in their district.

When we can return the Power to the elected representatives we are also returning the Power to the electorate where the Power belongs.