Democracy

Québec inherited a political system copied on British Parliamentarism with the Constitutional Act of 1791. The voting system in use in all of Canada's 11 parliaments is known as first-past-the-post and is arguably the worst way to elect representatives. As if the electoral system wasn't flawed enough by itself, a careful study of Athenian democracy as described by Aristotle, our best primary source, reveals that elections have little to do with democracy.

• Wikipedia: Voting System
• Glossary of Terms
• Voting Theory and Reform
• Administration and Cost of Elections
• Elections: Results and Voting Systems
• ElectionMethods.org
• Marquis de Condorcet
• State of Democracy Project
• International Foundation for Election Systems
• Informative Video on Proportional Representation with British actor John Cleese (Real Video)
• History of the Vote in Canada
• Québec Estates General on Democratic Governance (2003)
• Mouvement Démocratie Nouvelle