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Originally Posted by calculoso
However... if I voted NDP, I wouldn't have voted for the Liberals or Conservatives. If I voted Liberal, I wouldn't have voted for the NDP or the Conservatives.
Nobody voted for a NDPLiberal MP. It didn't and doesn't exist. Neither does LiberalNDP, or LiNbeDraPl or any other combination. To insinuate that they have the "majority vote" of canadians is nothing but a fallacy, which has been pointed out zillions of times.. apparently to deaf ears.
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Except that under our system (and I personally hate this, but that's the way it is), you're voting for an individual, not for a party. Whatever that person chooses to do, whether it's cross the floor, join a coalition, or vote for or against some crazy measure, it's out of our control. (I'd prefer a system where you elect a party seat, and for the entire life of that government, the seat remains owned by that party.)
The most recent poll from Harris Decima (linked earlier in this thread) had a question about whether respondents think that whoever the next elected government is, they should form a coalition to prolong the life of the government. 55% of respondents agreed; 35% disagreed. I would have liked to see them also ask how they would feel about opposition parties forming a coalition (I would expect the results to be much lower), but the point is that Canadians on the whole aren't that anti-coalition.