text: Keep in mind, folks, the NDP government in Alberta introduced 'Electoral Reform' which involved government subsidies to political parties, but ONLY if they achieved more than 10% of the overall vote. 
  
  Why 10%? Well, seems in Alberta there are also the Green and Liberal parties that competed (more or less) for the same sort of voters that the NDP wants. So--Presto!--you suddenly have erected a barrier against any minor parties cutting into the status-quo.
  
  As for B.C., I wonder if the NDP, as the current 2nd-placed party, will be all that interested in 'Electoral Reform' unless it can frame it to benefit itself. 
  
  Moral: Political parties, despite all the spin to the contrary, don't do things for altruistic reasons.