Realitychex wrote:Trying to generate an argument that 60% of Canadian's voted en masse for a single, viable alternative party is, to put it politely, a disingenuous argument.
I never said any such thing because you're right, trying to make that argument would be disingenuous and a blatant fairy tale of the kind Harper continuously tries to ram down our throats. I was responding to this statement:
Zip Tie wrote:The population majority elected this government and the population majority will be protected by that government.
Clearly the "population majority" did not elect the Conservatives, our multi-party system did. Read the first sentence of my post that you're disagreeing with carefully this time. Now here's another "Reality Check".
The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives were going nowhere with Canadians until they merged creating one half of a two party state, a unified right wing on one side and four other parties on the other. Even then it took a couple of tries before Canadians trusted them enough to give them a majority. It's no compliment to the Canadian voters that we stupidly gave them that majority immediately after finding them in Contempt of Parliament. For the layman that means they persistently lied to parliament (meaning us) about a number of very important financial matters, got caught, and continued to lie. They're still lying while flipping us the bird when we demand honest answers.
When the other political parties pull their head out of their respective asses and merge like the CA/PC's the Conservatives are toast. In fact had the Liberals and NDP done that last election they would have gotten 49.54% of the vote versus the CPC's 39.62%. How many seats that would translate to would take more analysis than I'm prepared to do, but I think it's safe to say Harper wouldn't be in power. The NDP all by themselves might beat Harper if an election were called right now, which is why the Conservatives are running attack ads against Mulcair even though an election is still three years away.
The next election can't happen fast enough.