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Originally Posted by transplant99
Canada is centrist by majority votes...period. The Liberals have been elected many times, so have the Conservatives and philosophically if a country leans one way only or the other, that could not happen. Dion is a Liberal problem, not anyone elses.
So again, you would have to say that though the Conservatives didnt get the majority of the votes overall they did get the biggest majority of the votes, therefor combining the Bloc/Libs/Greens as being somehow the same thing is fallacy at best, and NOT representative of what the country voted for.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...eral_elections
Looking back historically, the Liberals have formed 23 governments an the Conservatives have formed 16 governments. I don't know about you, but looking at the graph looks decidedly more pink than blue historically, even when the Conservatives formed the government.
We'll have to agree to disagree then because I do not think it's a fallacy to suggest that a coalition government would be most representative of this country. I think it's a fallacy to suggest otherwise. A coalition would represent compromise between the parties... how is it not representative?
EDIT: I thought I should add, that while the conservatives and liberals tend to be centrist, the social and foreign policy differences are very polarizing and it is why many diehard conservatives or liberals will never vote the other way.