Ontario's Electoral Referendum

If you live in Ontario, you are aware that there is going to be a referendum on the tenth of October. We are being asked if we want to change the way our votes are decided. A number of groups have felt that the way we currently elect our government is not fair. With more than three candidates to choose from in each constituency, the one elected need not necessarily by the one the majority have chosen.
The proposal is that our ballots should have two votes. One would be for the candidate of your choice for the riding, the other would be for the party to form the government. Each party would have a list of people who would sit in the legislature if their party is chosen, but has not won enough seats through election. In the event that the chosen party has, it isn't clear how those extra seat would be filled, presumably by percentage of the popular vote.
I cannot say that I am a fan of the proposed changes to our electoral system. I have a number of problems with them.
The biggest issue is that it results in people sitting in the legislature that the public has not approved. The parties will choose them, not us. You can be sure that seats will be given for favours, promises to vote on party lines at all times. That is not what a democracy is about. The people should choose those who represent them.
Another problem I see is that any government selected by this new method would have an artificial majority. This means that they can pass whatever legislation they want, without even the possibility of the wishes of the population being taken into account. True, this is tied to the first issue I raised, but that's the way party politics works.
The way I see it, the only way we could ever have a truly representative governing system is to eliminate party politics all together. Instead, each candidate would have to stand on his or her own. They would be responsible to the constituents alone, the people who chose him or her for the job. When they took their oath of office, he or she would know exactly who the boss was.
That is an idealized way of setting up a democracy. The party system evolved so that there would be less confusion in policy for the government, and those proposing laws would have to justify those bills to the opposition. It is the price we pay for trying to streamline getting things done.
There may or may not be a problem with the way we elect our members of the legislature. The proposed system, however, presents the larger problem of putting unelected people into positions that affect how we are governed. That is not democracy. If the proposal were changed, maybe I could get behind it. Until then, the current system of "first past the post" is the only fair way I can see to elect our government.