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Originally Posted by driveway
And the CPC get to have sole power despite 62.4% of Canadians voting for other parties.
As the election laws in this country work, the Conservatives got to be in power because they won the most seats, however they didn't win enough for a majority. Now a group of parties who hold more seats in total than the conservatives want to take power.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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The only problem with that is no one voted for a group of parties, they voted for a party. If the majority of candadians are getting two votes, why don't I? The party got the majority of the votes was the conservatives, and they should get the chance to govern. This is essentially a coup. The spirit of the election laws are that the party with the most votes gets to govern. If they don't have over half, they need to work with the other parties to try and make it work. If they can't agree, yes the other parties have the right to make a coalition and try to govern themselves. Unfortunately, in this case, the opposition didn't even try to make it work, they just went out and disregarded the voters decision. To me, they didn't follow the spirit of the laws, which is what makes this more like a coup than an elected government.