Here’s a way of looking at National Results, especially Green vs PPC.
Per Candidate Vote Count, but subtracting the amount of votes by Candidate.

373 Per Candidate, Libertarian (13)
1,307 per Candidate, Maverick (27)
362 Per Candidate, CHP (25)
229 Per Candidate, Rhino (27)
811 Per Candidate, Free Party (59)
2,702 Per Candidate, PPC (312)
1,566 Per Candidate, Green (252)
8,942 Per Candidate, NDP (338)
16,689 Per Candidate, Bloc (78)
16,398 Per Candidate, Liberal (338)
17,004 Per Candidate, Conservative (337)

Since the shady Mail-In Ballots, after the original article however the issues of whining from the PPC regarding larger votes/percentages over greens (who now have just May’s seat now, Jews will be blamed.), well as one can see, the per-vote isn’t a huge jump (also Reform’s second attempt from 1988 to 1993 gained them seats, not kept them with a lost leader seat) above Greens per-Candidate vote (just in a percentage). Meaning they had a hand full of acceptable local campaigns, and a National one that could have been stronger, true for Libertarians, 2 strong Candidates and no strong National Campaign at all.
Granted the Libertarians also didn’t have media attention on their scale, Rebel even sent an unethical e-mail to their e-mail list with Bernier as the sender, CTV was even more fair to them as to a breakdown, Epoch covered them. Even hit pieces have a value, it causes core support to shoot up and people to question it.
They made sure the most obscure Candidate had signs and flyers (although some may claim some were too late).
Debates didn’t matter, it just makes you hate the Leader’s more, and all it did was make Bernier’s exclusion a media coverage talking point.
Let’s look at the Per-Candidate count, it’s huge Bloc vs NDP, it slightly edges the Liberals, do you give more seats to the Bloc? No.
Conservatives barely edged out the Liberals on per-Candidate votes at all, it’s just a matter of strength in larger voting areas.
The reality is if your running in Toronto-Centre, you ought to do well enough (and party help enough) to win there. Or Vancouver-East, Edmonton-Centre, et all…..

Tell Your MP:
I think the constituencies are too huge, especially for a Federal level, 15,000 voters and a new 5000 person constituency should be split from it. Min. 5000 and Max of 10000 people should have a representative. None getting more than 1 buck a constituent (inflation/deflation linked) salary.
Ballots can be free-for-all in constituencies that small, and require a full profile, requiring web presence (website and social media), a phone, office (optional), and 3 issues min to stand on (If requiring signatures past votes should count to required signatures, anywhere in the city you previously ran in, any level of Government).
No one should do the financial papers unless an incumbent, could have accounts opened by EC for Candidates to put a min of $50 in (allowing low paperwork direct monitoring of financial transactions, even blind trusting of individual donors who can vote for you).

I would prefer Provinces pick their Federal MP elections, so they can avoid conflicts and possibly have Provincial Parties form National Coalitions, rather than have National Parties.
Also have Provincial Legislatures appoint a binding 2 Senators (only) to the Senate, on an open ballot, to all willing to put themselves forward.

Ranked ballot system, where you get a score for the place on the voter’s ballot. 1st = 10 pts, 2nd = 8 pts 3rd = 6 pts 4th = 4th pts 5th = 2pts and 6th = 1pt
A Weighed Support Ballot: Another option is getting an 100 votes to divide as you see fit among Candidates to 1 or all or somewhere in-between.