[Caged Great]

The thing I've heard from mostly conservative pundits is that this is undemocratic.

What I have to say is, welcome to Canadian politics. If you do not have a majority of votes, you are liable to have the opposition parties unite if they are totally against what your minority stands for. Typically this doesn't happen as differences are minor. This time the opposition are exercising their constitutional rights to do so.

Conservatives can say that they are trying to usurp power, but that argument is only valid if the Conservatives had a majority. They do not.