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Originally Posted by Major Major
An interesting and realistic scenario. I would not be in favor of such a coalition. It makes more sense in Europe where there are several viable parties. When you only have 2 realistic parties that could get enough seats to form a government, you shouldn't be able to use a third party as political training wheels. If poly-b is the winner, so be it.
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If he was the winner he would be the winner and be able to pass confiedemce motions and control government. If the party is unable to do that did they really win the election?
Even if you prefer him to get the first crack at government it could fall at the first confidence motion and whatever coalition would then take over. It’s the same end result.
I disagree with you about European coalitions. They form coalitions because there are no viable parties that can form governments on their own. Which as Canada becomes more regionalized is true here as well despite having a FTFP which lowered the popularity threshold to form a majority.
Also an NDP/Lib or a Bloc/UCP or a NDP/UCP volition would all likely represent a majority of the votes of Canadians so I don’t think you could say that a group representing 50% of Canadians is less representative than one representing 35%.
If you look at what PP claims to support he would find a lot of alignment with the Labour wing of the NDP. So there should be room to collaborate on the housing crisis.