Canada is a country of mini-elections. Each producing a MP of the party favored by the constituency itself. It is better in some regards to the US, where in their presidential electorate the actual voters are the Collage of Voters.
Our MP won with 70% of the popular vote. It wouldn't be fair for our choice to move 24% of the votes cast to some other part of the country.
Democracy in Canada is not some big monolith, rather, its strength is in the layering of democracy. That starts at a ballot box, an MP, a PM, a senator... yes even senators... they are appointed by an elected man. And then the senate layers another democracy via their contemplation wisdom and ultimately voting.
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