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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
The Ontario government is allowing STV for municipal elections beginning in 2018; so the ball is starting to roll.
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I thought it was for preferential ballot, and is it all of Ontario or just Toronto?
Were it up to me, I'd fill the Senate by proportional representation (from party lists) and the Commons by preferential ballot (no party affiliations on the ballot and no party funding of candidates - just individuals standing for election on their own stead). Ideally the Senate would be a single nationwide constituency (e.g. ~100 senators for the entire country, so 1% vote = 1 senator) but it may be politically necessary to break that up into regions or provinces (i.e. so the vote share in any region/province is reflected in that region/province's senators).
Governments would be formed in the Senate, not the Commons, allowing the Commons to revert to what it once did in England: hold the Government to account. Question period would be a phenomenon for the Senate, but MPs would have the power to question ministers at Committee, or, in extraordinary circumstances, in the Commons itself (Committee of Whole).