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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
That was once true, but it's no longer the case. In the Oct. election the Liberals won 32 out of 42 seats in Toronto, which is 76% of the Toronto seats. And they only won an additional 6 seats in all of the rest of Ontario.
Take the Toronto seats out of the equation and the Liberals were elected to 45 of the remaining 266 seats in Canada, which is only 17% of those seats. So in reality they represent 17% of the constituencies in Canada outside of Toronto.
As for the west, the Liberals won 8 seats in total, including the territories, which is 8.5% of the 95 seats available in the west.
They won 17 out of 32 seats in Atlantic Canada, which is not a resounding mandate.
And they won 14 of 75 seats in Quebec, which amounts to 18% of the seats in Quebec.
Please explain how a party that only has one power base in Canada, Toronto, is national party.
So in effect this is a coalition of Toronto, Quebec separatists and a left wing rump party that will never earn enough voter support to have any legitimate power on its own. Not only are the Liberals NOT a national party, this whole coalition cannot pretend to be a national party when it consists of two regional parties, the Toronto Liberals and the Bloc, plus a fringe group of socialists.
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While I am on your side of the argument, you're not doing it any favors with this analysis. The reason that the Liberal parties seats in Toronto count, is because Toronto is a part of Canada.
Everyone is already aware that the Liberal base of power is Toronto, and the Bloc's base of power is Quebec.