Time For A New Political Party. The Only Thing That Can Pull Federal Politics From Its Death Spiral Is A New Option -- A Coalition Of The Serious.

The article goes by a cause-and-effect flow of logic.  It describes some disenchantment with political situations and the result is to create new parties to deal with it.  Because the one or two standard parties don't seem to have the will to deal with them.  The first page of the article gives examples of this situation going on in multiple provinces and then asks why that isn't happening federally.

The thesis is that when the established parties aren't responding to your needs the solution is to start new ones.  He gives examples in other provinces and asks why it's absent on the federal scale.  He tries to answer that question by talking about problems of distance, regional and cultural divides.

No sources are mentioned, but he's reasoning from the provincial level up to the federal level.  He dismisses the alternative view of reforming the current political parties when he says that once a pattern of behaviour is started and you move down that track then it's hard to push off it onto another one.

The argument is convincing.  He's consistent with his point.  It offers a contribution to the field and gets one thinking about a course of action to move forward on.