2019 Federal Election

[ijmorlan]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_coalition

I agree it doesn’t seem likely in the current climate in this country.

I get the impression it happens more often in places where coalitions are common, and occasionally the smaller parties go too far, to the extent that the big parties just split their differences and work together rather than each trying to attract enough small party support to form a government.