Disadvantages of the plurality voting system

I won’t go into my specific concerns with Canada’s voting system as they’re well documented on Wikipedia, but I would like to illustrate my frustration with our 2008 election as an example.

PartyPopular voteSeats won
Conservative37.6%46.4%
Liberal26.2%24.6%
New Democrat18.2%12.0%
Bloc Québécois10.0%16.2%
Green7.0%0%

Maybe we can look at some alternatives?

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