The mistake that people make is they say, “Well, Italy was really bad because they changed prime ministers every two weeks.” But do you know what? It was too stable. It was always the same coalition that it was picking a prime minister from, so they didn't have a genuine alternation of fresh ideas and fresh people and fresh voices. Any time you have more than two choices, you have inevitable, mathematically provable problems with choosing which one is the majority preference. Of course, fresh thinking is needed when we move into a standard multi-party system in Canada. I don't think it was working very well for a long time, in the period in which I originally wrote this book. It seems to be working better now for some of the reasons I mentioned. It's actually not just good luck. I think there have been some significant adaptations.
On September 20th, 2016. See this statement in context.