On Reddit and the Star is was suggested that:

Trudeau and Singh must look to France to avoid a Poilievre government

In France, the lesson is that proportional representation is more democratic than first-past-the-post.

In the recent election, the centrist Macron (similar to Trudeau) did not make any deals with the left wing parties. Rather, the left-wing parties joined forces (becoming similar to the NDP). This allowed the left to earn a more substantial percentage of the vote.

The radical right polled a well-deserved third place. But none of the three parties has a majority – and so what France will get is what Canada has had for the last three years – a collaboration between the centre and the left to form government.

What France has learned from Canada and the US and Britain and others is that to elect a right wing party these days is to wreck the economy and throw international affairs into a turmoil. It’s to invite corruption and poor government into the house.

The left and the centre are not the same, neither in Canada nor in France. There are substantial differences. But what they can do – which the right seems no longer able to do – is to find common ground with opponents to move the nation forward.

We in Canada could do that more easily with proportional representation. We would have had it, were Trudeau true to his word. But we have no illusions that Poilievre would ever support proportional representation. That would end any chance of a future Conservative government unless it stopped catering to the far right.