Democracy is defined as the government of the people; a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or their elected representatives under a free electoral system (Democracy, n.d.). Canadians generally take pride in calling this democratic nation home, but does our electoral system reflect this belief? Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy adopted from the British system. Few changes have been made since its creation, leaving our modern nation with an archaic system that fails to represent the views of its citizens. Canada's current “first-past-the-post” (FPTP) system continues to elect “false majorities” that are not representative of the actual percentage of votes cast. Upon closer examination of the current system, it appears that there are a number of discrepancies between our electoral system and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Other nations provide Canada with excellent examples of electoral systems that more accurately represent voters' opinions, such as proportional representation. This is a voting system that allocates seats to a political party based on the percentage of votes cast for that party nationwide. Canada's current voting system is undemocratic because it fails to accurately translate the percentage of votes cast into the number of seats won by each party, so we should adopt a mixed proportional representation system to ensure our elections remain democratic. Perhaps the greatest threat that FPTP poses to democracy is the frightening discrepancy between election results and the actual percentage of votes cast for each political party. In the FPTP system... center of paper....../democracy.Fair Vote Canada. (2008). Once again electoral dysfunction. Retrieved November 27, 2011, from http://s.fairvote.ca/files/news%20release%20-%20october%2015%202008%20-%20election%20results.pdf?q=files/news%20release%20 - %20October%2015%202008%20-%20elections%20results.pdfKarp, J. A. (2006). Political knowledge about electoral rules: Comparison of mixed-member proportional systems in Germany and New Zealand. Election Studies, 25(4), 714-730.May, E. (2009). Losing trust: Power, politics and crisis in Canadian democracy. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart. Nakhaie, M. R. (2006). Electoral participation in municipal, provincial and federal elections in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 39(2), 363-390. Pammett, J., & LeDuc, L. (2003). Explaining declining voter turnout in Canadian federal elections: A survey of non-voters. Canadian elections, 40.