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Originally Posted by redforever

Duceppe, Layton, and Dion called a press conference and produced a letter that all three of them had signed. What would you then call Duceppe, if not a coalition member? Check out the site at the link below.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/...ion-talks.html

Marchhare is right in that the formal deal said it was a Liberal-NDP coalition with Bloc support. The Bloc wouldn't have helped form the government, so in the strictest definition of the word were not a coalition partner.

It was nothing more than semantics, however, as the Bloc held the hammer either way. Either the Liberal-Commie coalition gave them what they wanted, or they killed the government. They didn't need a token cabinet minister as they were the power behind the throne.