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buckle8017 • yesterday at 10:44 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

There are no primaries in Canada at all.

Parties select their representatives who run in the election.

The system basically guarantees that insiders cannot be removed.


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seanw444 • yesterday at 10:56 PM

That actually sounds crazy to me. At least for the House of Commons. I'm amenable to upper chambers of bicameral legislatures being indirectly elected. That's how the US Senate used to be before the constitution was amended.

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cowlevel • yesterday at 11:33 PM

Do you have several parties or just two?

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