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Originally Posted by driveway
I'd love to see a coalition government formed. I don't understand why Canadians reacted so negatively when the idea was first floated. We're a parliamentary democracy, coalition governments are perfectly acceptable under the paradigm.
I get that people don't like the idea of the Bloc, but they were democratically elected, therefore they are just as legitimate a political party as any other.
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Mainly because a vast majority of the country really doesn't get the concept of a parliamentary democracy and the parliamentary democracy we do have has morphed into a quasi-parliamentary-quasi-american democracy. Technically there's nothing wrong with a coalition government, but the average Canadian would never buy into as a legitimate form of government. The biggest slag that was tossed around during the rumours of a coalition was that it was
undemocratic to have the country run by a coalition of losers. It would take a massive reversal of the collective mindset of most Canadians to understand a coalition government.