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Old 12-01-2008, 10:06 PM   #822
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate View Post
In Italy, Germany, Sweden this talk would all be laughed at. In Sweden the *FOUR* right wing parties formed a coalition against the one leftish party. The Swedish Social Democrats had 129 seats, 36 more than any other party and yet their leader resigned in shame. Having the most seats in a splintered minority government means absolutely jack sh*t. It's about time Canada learned what most other countries already know.
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In Israel there is something like 23 parties that have seats in parliament. Obviously they have to work together in order to get things done.

That is all this is. It is odd with only 4 parties but it's not without precedent.
So now we're down to trotting out governments halfway around the world, socialist Sweden, and Israel of all places, to hold up as models of favourable potential outcomes and to justify what's happening in this country, something that hasn't happened here, since WWI??

In any of those "worldly situations" that we should all be in awe of, I wonder if the various participants in those coalitions include a faction that wants to split the country up?
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