got a minority 60 percent of Quebecers voted for a non-seperatist party in the last election and who is in charge..the PQ..is that a reflection of the moajority? How about Harper..60 percent of Canadians voted for left leaning parties..and we have the lone right wing party with a majority?? And similarily the same was true when Chretien was winning by default in the 1990s because the right wing vote was split. CAQ is a separatist party, just not too hurried about it. So is Quebec Solidaire. That adds up to about 60 percent with the PQ. And Harper got 48% of the votes outside Quebec, so, should Quebec leave, that would make his a mandate as good as any in any modern democracy. Oh, and the Liberals don't always run as a Left Wing party, especially against the NDP. Or how about the fact that some ridings have 130000 people in them and others have 60000..so some peoples vote counts twice as much and typically in rural ridings. Or how one party can win a riding by 5 votes and all the other votes for the second place party count for nothing.. You have a point there, but on the second point: people vote tactically, it balances out. The UK had a referendum to remove first-past-the-post and got roundly defeated by nearly three votes to one. What are the odds of a similar outcome in Canada? But what's to stop the rest of us from having, like Justin, our own