As I said in my earlier remarks, and Professor Macfarlane said it as well, there's no best system. I think that Peter Russell would agree with me. I've known him for a long time, and this is kind of conventional wisdom. In your example, there are anomalies that, whether you're a Conservative or not, you might regret, but surely that is up to the parties. It's not a function of the electoral system. What happened with the disintegration of the Mulroney coalition, in some respects, was foreseeable, like it or not, but I don't think it had anything to do with the electoral system. It righted itself; it just took a long time.
On August 23rd, 2016. See this statement in context.