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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Like it or not, Canadians HAVE given the Conservatives a very CLEAR mandate over the last two elections.
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The mandate given to the Conservatives is one that represents less than the majority of the total seats available, but still the most seats as compared to any other party.
What this specifically means is that in passing any sort of governance, they will need to the support of at least one opposition party. This is very important to understand, they can't govern the country without flexibility. The last minority government lasted for more than 2 and a half years as the Liberals primarily supported most of the Conservative initiatives (when they didn't they worked together to come up with a compromise). We only got into another election because finally the compromises could not be reached and I would suggest that the Conservatives had thought they could reach a majority and decided to stop building consensus.
The people have spoken and said keep governing like you did and build consensus.