The Canadian electoral system is the First Past the Post. This system only permits two candidates to compete fairly in an election but in the event, there are three candidates, then a winning candidate only needs 34 percent of the overall vote since the opposition will be split into two. This is an indication that in a voting, 66 of the voters risk losing their votes to the opposition. In the event, there are five candidates competing, the winner only needs to garner 21 percent of the total votes cast and the majority of the remaining voters; approximately, 79 percent will risk losing their votes. This essay is a critique of the Canadian electoral system. Canadian Electoral System Canadians are well aware that with the present electoral system, their votes do not count most, and this has led to the higher degree of voter apathy. This kind of electoral system is considered undemocratic because it permits a political party with a little number of votes to win more than the seats that are required to form the government. This has resulted in the leaving out of the majority of the Canadian population without adequate representation in the halls of power. This is a demonstration that minority of the Canadians controls the government due to the skewed electoral process. The choice of an electoral system is a fundamental decision in democracy, and it has a deep effect on the current and future political life. According to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (1), the central institutions in Canada are faced with the crisis of representation, and this has eroded the legitimacy and the authority of key institutions like parliament and the cabinet. The 1979 elections brought to fore the crisis and there is need therefore to establish the mechanism that will guarantee the representations of linguistic and regional groups. There is therefore, the need to reform the Canada’s electoral system to ensure that Quebec and the westerners are equally represented. There is a need for an electoral system that would not exclude any segment of the society from the federal government. The reformations in the electoral system will be considered as an incentive that dictates how political parties operate; it will allow political parties to establish organizations in every corner of the country and to make them more sensitive to the wishes and aspirations of the Canadian people. As McGinley (2) argues, the current electoral system makes it difficult for conservatives and liberals to rebuild because they got weakened by the election results. The politics and the prospect electoral reform in Canada is a complicated one. The current First Past the Post electoral system that is practiced in Canada has not provided the Canadians with a commensurate benefit, and instead it has perpetuated the erosions of democracy, distortion of voters and their choices. It has been doubted whether the FPTP is appropriate for Canada, there has also been doubts as to the reason why a progressive country like Canada has not reformed its electoral system despite noticing anomalies in the system. This form of an electoral system seeks to distort the wishes of the majority and there have been some calls for return of real democracy where the majority will have their way and minority thei