The story of the election, with possible reverberations nationwide, was of course the historic breakthrough of the province’s Green party. It’s also supposed to drive politics, by virtue of its bias in favour of larger parties, towards a two-party system, a phenomenon known as Duverger’s Law. How many voters would opt for newer or smaller parties if they had a chance of actually electing someone? Yet, notwithstanding the growing fragmentation of our politics, our democratic institutions carry on as if nothing had changed. We are trying to stuff multi-party politics into a system built for two, generating results that are not just wildly unrepresentative but increasingly unstable.

Source: National Post April 25, 2019 00:11 UTC