There are no primaries in Canada at all.

Parties select their representatives who run in the election.

The system basically guarantees that insiders cannot be removed.

seanw444 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That actually sounds crazy to me. At least for the House of Commons. I'm amenable to upper chambers of bicameral legislatures being indirectly elected. That's how the US Senate used to be before the constitution was amended.

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cowlevel 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have several parties or just two?

	▲	buckle8017 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Liberals NDP Greens Conservative Liberals NDP and Greens would never form a government with the Conservatives so the liberals are effectively always in power. Which means insiders in the liberal party are in charge and voting is partly irrelevant unless you're voting for the conservatives, but they would need an actual straight majority.