“Let me get this straight:
Canada held a legal election in which the conservatives won”
Short answer, no; they didn’t win. They got a larger minority vote but still a minority government. They needed the support of another party to govern and they lost the support of that party.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. But since the Conservatives have the largest block of seats, won’t they still command some influence? Or can they be completely shut out if the opposition parties pull together a sufficient coalition?
When hasn’t a minority government had it’s leader as the Prime Minister?
These 3 leftist parties will run the Canadian government without even a minority. It will fall of course but after much damage to the economy as Canada will have lost it’s history of having a stable government system, not to mention what they will do through Parliament to move Canada to the left. Canadians said NO to this just 6 weeks ago.
If there is a, no confidence vote there needs to be another election as Canadians did not vote for a coalition of the left with a Quebec separatist party to be their government.