Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises. - Tom Flanagan

'Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the centre and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down into civil war, and spatial models of party competition will be irrelevant until order is restored.

Finally, it should also be noted that the very existence of a bicameral legislature is itself another defence of the status quo.