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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I thought the practice is you ask the previous governing party.
Without checking, didn't this recently happen in New Brunswick, the party with the 2nd most seats in a minority was asked to form government first because they were the governing party going into the election.
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This is correct, according to this article from 2019:
https://globalnews.ca/news/6045084/h...s-work-canada/
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Canada uses the Westminster parliamentary system, modelled on what’s in place in the U.K.
Not all of our rules are actually written down — a lot has to do with custom and tradition.
Who gets the first chance to form government is one of those questions without a written answer.
The tradition is that the incumbent government — which remains the government until any new one is formed — is allowed to seek the confidence of the House of Commons by attempting to form a coalition with other like-minded parties, or by getting their support case-by-case.
That remains the case even if the incumbent doesn’t hold the most seats.
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