Quality education is the solution to fascists.

Decent, non-partisan-enough article on our electoral system with a terrible, very partisan-sounding headline. Canada does have a conservative government, it's just formed by the LPC vs the CPC.

I'll admit, I skimmed their re-counting previous elections using a PR system analysis because I think voters fundamentally vote differently under PR vs FPTP. FPTP often incentivizes voting AGAINST parties, whereas PR often incentivizes voting FOR parties. For example, in the last federal election, the LPC wouldn't have got such a big anti-CPC vote under PR. Moreover, Ontario has always split the Libs and Cons at the federal and provincial levels in the last 70 years or so, minus one election with Bob Rae

The liberals in power now are effectively conservatives, especially since Carney

I disagree with this; in places where the two first past the post has been done away with there seems to be more parties, leading to more minorities and more coalitions. Sure more right leaning parties may pop up in the west but also more left leaning parties would pop up to. Right now we have two right leaning conservative parties running the government. I really wish the “true” liberals would say bye bye Carney and go to the NDP, but that may be to much to ask of them.

[this system we're considering] maintains the close connection between voters and their members of Parliament—one that Canadians are familiar with in single-member ridings

Lol. How many people can name their MP?

These arguments don’t hold up to scrutiny, though. In Ireland, PR-STV has worked well, and while it produces coalition governments, these have been stable administrations for decades that regularly run their full term. As for the argument that PR grants extremists and radicals a route into the legislature, to date in Ireland, the far right has failed to make electoral inroads despite the permissiveness of the electoral system. Instead, hyper-local independent candidates have become a staple of the political culture.

That feels like cherrypicking the one counterexample when there's a ton of straight examples of political fragmentation. Like, pretty much pick any different European country.