Conservitives early house minority

[Revisedsoul]

great, just great

 

[chimpmunk]

Serves the crooked up liberals right.

 

[falconwind]

well at least the conservatives are severely handicapped. that's the best one can hope for. and the NDP are all the more powerful, which will help reign in any extremist legislation.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Yeah, this minority conservative gov is almost the best-case scenario. The liberals now know that they'll have to get their shit together for next time (which ought to be soon, thanks to the inevitable no-confidence vote) and the NDP have quite a good deal of power.

 

[CptStern]

the conservatives won mostly in rural canada and in the west. With a minority gov and a united strong opposition they'll be too busy fixing the financial mess left by the liberals to worry about social issues. I give them 2 years max before they collapse, it's just not sustainable in the long run ..I will say that at least they got a few seats in quebec. If there's ever a unity issue he'll need all the support in quebec he can get

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Yeah, this minority conservative gov is almost the best-case scenario. The liberals now know that they'll have to get their shit together for next time (which ought to be soon, thanks to the inevitable no-confidence vote) and the NDP have quite a good deal of power.

yeah...i suppose it a bit like looking for the positives in a negative situation.
i just hope the Liberals and NDP keep the PC in check.
one thing is for sure, regardless of what party people want in government, theres no denying that more gets done with minority governments over the majority governments.

 

[chimpmunk]

Funny how Canada voted in majority for a conservative, federalist party, While Québeckers voted in majority for a progressive, sovereignist party.

And they still won't aknowledge us as a different people.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Actually, the majority did not vote conservative. That's what 'minority government' means.

 

[chimpmunk]

The point is, conservatives were given the more votes and are now in power.

 

[Revisedsoul]

well seeing as the bloc lost 3 seats and dropped down 6.7% in the vote to 42.4% things could be turning around.

 

[Stigmata]

Actually, the majority did not vote conservative. That's what 'minority government' means.

I think he meant a relative majority did vote Conservative. Which is scary in and of itself.

But at least the NDP are more powerful than before.

 

[chimpmunk]

well seeing as the bloc lost 3 seats and dropped down 6.7% in the vote to 42.4% things could be turning around.

Yeah, passing from 48% to 42% is a HUGE drop.
The bloc still has 51 seats out of 75 (If i'm not mistaken).

At stigmata: That's what I meant, sorry if I was unclear.

 

[Revisedsoul]

well the point more than 50% voted agaisnt the bloc(reguardless of being diveded between several other parties), which would mean the majority did not vote for the block as your trying to state.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

well the point more than 50% voted agaisnt the bloc(reguardless of being diveded between several other parties), which would mean the majority did not vote for the block as your trying to state.

I think he meant more people voted for them than any other party there.


You people should stop calling it "Minority rule" or the like. It makes it sound like the ones who lost have control and gets confusing when people are talking about where 'the most' votes went to.

Call it a Plurality Government, as that actually makes sense and is SPECIFICALLY what it is.

 

[CptStern]

but it is a minority government ..they got less than half the seats in parliament. Which in turn spells long term doom for the government as at any time if the opposition parties introduce a no-confidence vote canadians will once again hit the polls ...kinda like what happened in this last election except the liberals had far more seats than the conservatives do now as a minority government. Out of the last 100 years the liberals have ruled for 70 of them

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

but it is a minority government ..they got less than half the seats in parliament. Which in turn spells long term doom for the government as at any time if the opposition parties introduce a no-confidence vote canadians will once again hit the polls ...kinda like what happened in this last election except the liberals had far more seats than the conservatives do now as a minority government. Out of the last 100 years the liberals have ruled for 70 of them

Yes, it's just to everyone not familiar with the Parliamentary system it's really confusing. First happened to me with the German elections, with news saying it may come down to a minority government.

Plurality is just better because it's exactly meant for a situation where someone wins an election but doesn't have over 50% of the vote.

 

[Revisedsoul]

well then those who are not familiar with the system should learn something about it before opening their mouths. which actually should be done anyway, and i've been guilty of it before.

 

[gick]

I think the parliamentary system is waaaay better. It means that if a party has the support of a smaller part of the population (as is the case here) they cant just run around doing what they like. It doesnt make much sense to me that in a system like the US's the ruling party has control of (and correct me if im wrong here) all three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial) despit having only a few % more of the vote in the last election.

 

[Revisedsoul]

while its great, it does have its flaws. would much better prefer to have a more acurate seat to total vote count

 

[Canadian Gunner]

Its interesting, in my City (Hamilton Ontario), 3 of the 4 ridings voted in NDP. Unforchunately the other voted in the Conservatives. Lousy rich neighbourhoods. Oh well. lol, I love how the Bloc gets more seats than the NDP. Good ol' sepretists