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Originally Posted by Alpine
Liberals are going to win another minority gov't again lol.
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While this would be my preferred outcome, given how "well" things are going for Turd and the Libs, I am really not expecting yet another Liberals victory, even if it was a Liberals minority government. Instead, I think the most likely outcome is that the Cons take a minority win.
But here is where things get interesting. According to some political podcasts that I follow, our parliamentary legislation is structured in such a way that the incumbent PM doesn't necessarily have to concede his position as PM. As the sitting PM, as long as he can come up with enough parliamentary support to keep him there as PM, he can continue to be PM. At the practical level, what this means is, assuming the Libs and NDP have won enough seats to form government, they can announce -- after the election -- to form a formal or informal coalition Lib-NDP gov, and it would all be completely legitimate. A formal coalition gov would mean the formal inclusion of NDP MPs into the federal cabinet, with Jagmeet likely being invited to become the deputy PM.
An informal coalition gov would be something like the current supply and confidence agreement, with no NDP MPs being in the cabinet.
Worthy of note is -- coalition govs are very common in Europe. Detractors will claim they are hugely inefficient, but supporters will say it provides a wider representation of voices in Parliament.
As a matter of tradition though, coalition govs are extremely rare in Canadian history. We usually only go by a majority / minority gov model, and if a single party didn't win enough seats to form a minority gov, the party leader usually just concedes (on the election).
I am not an NDP fan by any stretch of imagination, but if push comes to shove and it is a choice between a PeePee gov vs a Lib-NDP coalition, I'd say we should break tradition and go with the coalition model, even if its sole purpose is to fxxk PeePee's PM dreams up lol~