2019 Federal Election

[danbrotherston]

It's funny because you're all explaining how a minority government is better than a majority.

And I'm getting election ads from the liberals talking about how we need a "strong" government...which is pretty much code for having a majority government with authoritarian abilities...

Minority governments sometimes are better -- especially when you have two different viewpoints representing.

An unlikely but cool minority government: Liberal + Conservative. It likely would be able to represent most Canadians on most issues.

Not this Canadian. But you're right, Liberal and Conservatives would be broadly representative, the main reason we don't see that is that neither party stands to benefit by working together. It's to the point where the conservative party at this point, opposes conservative policies if the liberals support those policies (which as an increasingly centrist party, happens fairly often)...

It's the same reason they both oppose electoral reform.