I firmly believe that our connection to the U.S. has held us back in all facets of development including health care, technology, and defence. We've compared ourselves to the states instead of the best the world has to offer and we've grown complacent. I'm afraid that whatever happens in the next few years will be a shit show with Canada achieving a degree of independence at the expense of the environment and First Nations, but I hope we can do better than we have in the past, and looking outside our immediate sphere is a start.
Canada has hummed and hawwed about electoral reform for decades. It just hasn't been worth the required political capital to make it happen for any of the leaders.
The election of EU representatives is separate from the election of representatives in parliament. Canada could end up like the UK was (in the good old days), with PR for the European elections and FPTP for its own national elections.
In either case (EU or no EU), we must push for the government to implement proportional representation, and that starts by getting organized: [email protected].