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In article <eoT_k.21125$st1.15304@newsfe10.iad>,
Andrew Ostrander <apanda@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The poll that I rely on most is the one called election.  Anyway, the 
>"rules" of operation for the political process are not decided from week to 
>week by public opinion.
>
>It's you who are out in left field with your winner-takes-all theory.  Yes, 
>you have some company, but your opinions are based on feelings, not on 
>history or the facts.
>
>I pulled out my old high school history book (Building the Canadian Nation 
>by George Brown) and checked what I was taught.  I quote (page 627): 
>"Sometimes there are more than two parties in the elected House, none of 
>which has a majority, and this leads to an interesting situation. Two of 
>them, for instance, may decide to work together in order to have a majority, 
>and this union is called a Coalition. Coalition governments may last some 
>time, but they are often short-lived."
>
>Also on that page: "If a government measure is defeated, the vote is almost 
>always regarded as a vote of "want of confidence", the result of which will 
>be the resignation of the Cabinet and almost certainly another general 
>election."   The "almost" part refers to the present circumstances.
>
>"snowman" <x@x.x> wrote in message news:UAF_k.20988$st1.3238@newsfe10.iad...
>> Andrew Ostrander wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, but what you learned about confidence votes seems to be different 
>>> from what I learned about them.  I learned (years ago) that if a PM loses 
>>> a confidence vote, the Governor General can appoint someone else as Prime 
>>> Minister, and if that person has the support of the House of Commons, 
>>> then he/she remains the new PM.  Go back and check your school books, or 
>>> some other source of information.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Looks like you didn't learn it very well.  One vote, one person, one 
>> party.  That is the way Canada works, the people decide.  Not the edicts 
>> of the GG, not the backroom secret dealings of the 
>> Liberals/Separatists/NDP.
>>
>> The interesting thing is that the polls agree, that leaves your wantonly 
>> ignorant and misinformed opinion pretty much out in left field.
>>
>> -- 

And everyone said hung parliament with  a minority government.
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