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Yet, empirically, you're 100% wrong. Canada has both Federal, and Provincial FPTP parliaments. On the Provincial level, new parties appear, and are elected , minority or majority, all the time. Constantly. On the Federal level, things move more slowly. Yet new parties are appear, grow in popularity, and replace older parties. Canada is not only a place of multiple parties, it is a place of constant party renewal. And as a Canuck, I am all too familiar with vote splitting. We have party mergers. Parties that split and form new parties. We know all about strategic voting, but because we have the concept of minority governments, and because we don't vote for who our Prime Minister is, the dynamic changes a bit. FPTP isn't what causes two parties only, it is certain methods of government that do, mayhap combined with FPTP. |