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“Let's hope for a government that truly represents the people.”
See, there's the problem, as long as you stick with a system that is merely representative of the people, you end up hoping for the things the people want, but rarely truly getting them. The current political system allows for marginal change, and a fair degree of representation (I am speaking of Canada here, I really know very little of the states), it is not that bad as current systems go, though even with only marginal change, it could be better. This is not just an issue of policy, as long as you have a system in which one person is asked to represent the views of thousands of people, as little as fifty percent of which marginally support him or her (and often only because of lack of options), you are going to have problems.
However, this is not a forum of problems, this is a forum of solutions, so, here we go, nitty gritty. At the very least, we need some form of proportional representation, and some increase in the number of members of parliament, as well as a redistribution of the ridings. A required annual (at least :)) town hall type meeting with you constituents would also be very helpful. Ideally, the federal government would have minimal power, provinces and territories just enough to get by, and the majority of decisions made on the local level would be made by the entirity of the population, using some form of online survey.
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