[GP_Matt]

Originally Posted by troutman

Only the party with 40% of the popular vote can speak for Canada? The party with 30% of the popular vote has to be quiet?

http://enr.elections.ca/National_e.aspx

That's how elections work. The party that wins gets to represent the country and the country that loses should not. At least not outside of the country. Canada is small enough on the world stage that it is hard for one voice to be heard, no good can come from a second voice shouting it down.