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When did Peter McKay lead a party into an election with promises not to do something only to then change his mind less than 2 months later in an effort to become Prime Minister?
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What's the difference? He promised voters (in this case delegates at a leadership convention) that he wouldn't do one thing (merge with the CA) and then did exactly that shortly afterwards. You claimed that the proposed 2008 coalition would be "illegitimate" and stated that voters may have chosen differently if they knew a coalition with another party was in the cards...well, that's also true about voters at the PC leadership convention in 2003, but it doesn't make the merged CPC illegitimate because MacKay broke a promise.
The fact is, forming coalition governments is perfectly allowable under our Westminster parliament system even if the member parties have less support than the party with more seats. I'm absolutely
not a fan of a Liberal-NDP coalition, (particular one in which Stephane Dion would be PM), but there was nothing illegitimate about what they attempted to do in 2008.