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To: Squawk 8888

The Liberals become the minority party in Canada? This is too much to hope for. Iraq will have an elective representative government first.

All the road signs in French everywhere in Canada, including Quebec, would have to come down before I would believe that the Liberal party has lost its iron control. Too many of the minority coalition parties keep joining up with it on their single-issue politics to ever expect a Conservative recovery.


4 posted on 05/21/2004 8:35:11 AM PDT by alloysteel (Live well and prosper. Beam me up, Scottie....)
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To: alloysteel
The Liberals become the minority party in Canada? This is too much to hope for.

I think you misunderstood the concept of "minority government" (known in the UK as "hung parliament". In our system of "responsible government" (oxymoron), the executive branch requires the support of the House of Commons to remain in power. If the executive loses a vote, the entire cabinet must resign. A minority government means that the governing party holds less than half the seats in the house and can only remain in power with the support of members of other parties.

9 posted on 05/21/2004 8:42:40 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Earth first! We can mine the other planets later.)
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