Don't We Elect Prime Ministers For a Four Year Term?

Jocelyn Steeves | Oct 06, 2021

Seems to me that when an election is held every 4 years, the expectation is that the ruling party will do the best that they can, to serve their constituents, during their allotted time in office.

We should put an end to the possibility of having an election before the end of a party's term. It's a colossal waste of taxpayer money and completely self serving. Why allow it?

And what about campaign promises? What about the promise to have proportional representation?  

Britannica explains the process: It is an electoral system that seeks to create a representative body that reflects the overall distribution of public support for each political party. Where majority or plurality systems effectively reward strong parties and penalize weak ones by providing the representation of a whole constituency to a single candidate who may have received fewer than half of the votes cast (as is the case especially in the United States), proportional representation ensures minority groups a measure of representation proportionate to their electoral support. Systems of proportional representation have been adopted in many countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. 

Who, exactly, wasn't interested according to the Prime Minister? Could it be that the Liberals wouldn't have won had Justin made good on his promise in 2015 to enact  electoral reform? 

Besides, when every vote counts as opposed to the  First Past The Post system like ours, voter turnout would be higher. FPTP fails to represent the views of the voters. Those who want to keep the system the way it is are mainly Liberals, or Conservatives.

Maybe when casting your vote counts and making a promise means something to a politician, we will be hearing what a candidate plans on doing to help his constituents improve their lives.

Jocelyn Steeves