Smith W wrote
"And yes, I do prefer our system of representative democracy to one in which all government decisions are imposed without input from the public."
That is similar to saying in a debate over the practice of capital punishment that if we must have it then you prefer lethal injection over hanging or that you are in favour of freedom of choice for women but against their right to choose abortion. It is not a question of all or nothing but something better than this sorry excuse for governing a country in the 21st century The fact is as long as we say that this political and electoral system is better than one like absolute monarch for example then we are condoning it. That is the issue and it would be best to rephrase Churchill's comment and ask why our system has to be worse than almost all the rest of the countries that would call themselves democracies. Is it because we ought to be satisfied as Canadians with something manifestly inferior to all of the better alternatives that exist around us?