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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
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.
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I agree ... Toronto and Quebec are a part of Canada. No argument. All I'm saying is that with the Liberal's power base being so regionalized, they cannot be construed as being a national party, which is the original statement I contested. The same is true of the coalition as a whole ... its power base is not nationally based, it's regionalized. I do not mean to imply that Toronto or Quebec are not part of Canada. I was just trying to point out the regional nature of the power bases involved to make the argument that neither the Liberals nor the coalition can be called national representatives.
Edit: Perhaps you misread my meaning because I excluded the Toronto seats from one of my stats. That was not meant to suggest Toronto seats should not be counted. I just wanted to represent the percentage of seats held by the Liberals outside of Toronto ... or in the rest of Canada. To arrive at that figure I logically had to exclude the Toronto seats from the math. I didn't mean to suggest they should actually be excluded from Parliament or anything like that.