I'm Canadian, so I can't claim to know any of the rules of the american primary system.

Why mess around with "super delegates?" In Canada, you will typically see four or five candidates with their delegates. Then they fight it out all night over multiple ballots until someone gets a clear majority. In my mind, its a lot more fun and interesting.

Your's is a multi-party parliamentary system. There is really no useful comparison to be made. If we had a parliamentary system, George W. Bush would have been evicted from office long ago.

As an American, the more I study democracy, the more I yearn for a parliamentary system, where you actually can send your leaders packing if they're incompetent.

Yes NightSwimmer, he have a multi-party parliamentary system. But what I'm talking about is the "party" convention. When nominating a candidate for Prime Minister, each party has a convention. At these conventions, multiple candidates will duke it out over multiple ballots for the nomination.

So I think, as far as the party nomination goes, it probably is a useful comparison. I don't see how the republican and democratic parties can't adopt a similar system to nominate their presidential candidates.

They could. They can adopt any rules that they choose. The dynamics are much different with our two-party, fixed election schedule system. That is what has probably led to the different methodology.