I don't know if many of you are following it, but up here in Canada, we're having a right old constitutional crisis.

Basically what has happened is; at the last elections the following party's got the following percentages/seats in Parliament (in order).
Conservative 37.65% - 143 seats in Parliament
Liberal 26.26% - 77 seats in Parliament
Bloc Quebecois 9.98% - 49 seats in Parliament
New Democrat 18.18% - 37 seats in Parliament
Green 6.78% - 0 seats in Parliament

So, no problems there, (apart from the fact that a party can get into 3rd place with fewer votes than the party in 4th place), the Conservatives get to hold power.

In the last few days, the liberal leader has announced that he's forming a coallition with the Bloc Quebecois and New Democrat party's to create a majority in the house and effectively overthrow the government.

Needless to say there have been massive protests about this. Now, it is actually allowed by Canadian law (vote of no confidence) as a safety net incase a government gets to radical, but the point here is that although our government isn't great, it's not also not exactly doing a bad job.... so that situation doesn't really apply.

But what really grinds people's gears is that the Bloc Quebecois party's stated target is to seperate Quebec from the rest of Canada (yes, they're mental I know, but they seem to think that the rest of Canada doesn't like them because they're of French descent). So they only get 10% of the vote, but get to have a hand in running the country? A country they publicly want to split up?

I think it should be fairly obvious why Canadians are up in arms about it.

Now, this is an obvious downside to the multi-party system. I don't like the idea of being railroaded into only a couple of choices either.... so, what is the perfect (or as good as we can get) electoral system?