What happened was a politician's nightmare. Ask the people what they want, without the electoral campaign and marketing bullshit that political parties drum up a year and a half before each election and you might just be surprised. This type of votes should happen every goddamn month if you want true democracy....for every important issue, not just brexits and voting in prime ministers and presidents for 4-5 years of tyrant rule. Was this type of democracy tried before, in any country? Did it fail? Cause I can't possibly imagine how that would fail harder than the current system we have...to vote for one out of two guys (or one guy, one woman - that is just a mess in the making), then agree to live with the winner's dick in your asses for 4-5 years; where population has zero input, and the majority elected government can basically set up rape stations for the entire community and there's shit anyone can do except hope they have enough lube on standby? Would a majority government in theory be able to impose a 1000% tax increase? Besides bitching about it, can the peon taxpayers do anything?? America finally got payback in Iraq/Afghan/Yemen/Pakis a decade ago and killed a lot of shitheads that deserved it...could the US population have said...hold on, let's get a referendum on this before we go there? No, right?
PS. Canada sucks dude, half your paycheck goes on taxes, the other on cost of living. Unless you have double cancer with a dash of AIDS encrusted Ebola and need our free healthcare, head south to the states...they will soon have a woman leader..tho that might not be a positive soon enough. However with an average median salary you can actually live like a king down there, for now.