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The NDP must fulfill Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform
(canadiandimension.com)
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Bloc, not Bloq.
If that means they get a proportional representation of their party based on the number of Canadians that voted for them, I don't see the issue, it's the federal election, using a purely proportional system it would be based on the vote of Canadians as a whole, so yes the Bloc could end up with more seats than they traditionally get with FPTP. That's why you do it for the whole country instead of creating more disproportion like you can see with Quebec getting a higher % of seats than its population should let it have.
Distributing it based on who was the closest to winning their seat also removes the power from the parties to choose who gets the extra seats, it also increases the odds that seats will swing during the next election because people are now represented by two MPs, so the alternative have a chance to prove they're the better candidate.