When we talk politics in Canada there's always a clumsy elephant in the room, and that brain-dead elephant is our decidedly undemocratic voting system.

Until we fix it our situation is hopless because whatever progress we make as a society, protections we gain, peace we achieve, debt we pay or improvements we make, an unpopular extremist party can and will undo when it unfairly assumes power. Don't blame Harper, he's just another small-fry got lucky. Blame our most embarassing national failure that arbitrarily hands ill-gotten power to mostly dispised small-minded men.  The archaic, dysfunctional and undemocratic first-past-the-post voting system fails us, the majority of Canadian voters, election after election.

RATHER than donating to your political party, send it a note to let it know that you will donate to Fair Vote Canada INSTEAD, at least until your party gets serious about realizing a fair, proportinal voting system. That means it must champion proportional representation, as the New Democrat and Green Parties already claim they do.  But that on its own is insufficient; your party must also promise to cooperate with other parties to strateigically remove spoiler candidates in order to win the majority required to make a fair voting system law, immediately disolve parliament and call Canada's first ever fair election under an appropriate proportional voting system with all candidates running.

The Conservative dominated senate could block parliament's fair voting system legislation, but not without serious political fallout, a new widespread awareness of voting systems, a renewed will to abolish the senate, and a new successful mutually-beneficial system to remove mutual-spoiler candidates.  It would remain a major victory for us, the Canadian electorate.