At some point it will occur to someone: we have a democratic crisis on our hands — a crisis of legitimacy, a crisis of efficacy. We are stuck, spinning our wheels, unable to find a sense of direction. The prospect is for more hung Parliaments, more bootless elections, more stall and drift, and less and less public interest.

If this election proves anything, it is that the process by which we elect our governments is broken. We are trying to run five-party politics through a system that was designed for two parties.

Andrew Coyne, a right-leaning editorialist gets it right in his Oct. 16 article in Maclean’s. Read What if they gave an election and nobody won? – We now know one thing: this electoral system is broken. [Maclean's]