Canada

So long as the Liberals and Conservatives think there's a chance they can win a majority, they'll stave off any attempts to move to a proportional system. It's interesting that after the last election, I started seeing Conservative supporters, particularly in the West, start talking about electoral reform.

I don't know how many more hung parliaments we're going to need before the major parties give up the ghost. But there won't be any support from the Bloc, because a PR system would likely harm them. That pretty much leaves the NDP as the sole major Federal party that actually supports electoral reform. Who knows, maybe if the Liberals squeak through with another minority the NDP may be able to force the issue, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Wouldn't you say that the real problem is that the entire system of government is designed around the concept of local representation, whereas the people actually want global representation?

We have come up with hacks like political parties to try and bolt global representation onto a system designed for local representation, but these are ultimately hacks. FPP is quite well suited to the original structure of the Westminster system, but is incompatible with the hacks we've introduced along the way. If we are adamant that we must keep this system of hacks, then adding more electoral reform hacks on top is a necessity to keep things functioning well.

But do we need hacks at all when we also have the ability to start from the ground up and establish government around global representation from the get-go?

Keep in mind we are years away from a federal election. At this stage I don't think polls mean much at all.