C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N trumps [hate that term!] 'modern convention', Scheer. So   
   does 'confidence of the majority of the House'.  Look it up.   
      
   But winning the most seats isn't always the same thing as winning the right to   
   govern.   
      
   Whatever the result next Monday, the important thing to remember is this:   
   holding power means holding the confidence of a majority of the members of the   
   House of Commons.   
      
   That is the most basic fact of Canadian democracy. And with opinion polls   
   showing a very close race, now is likely a good time to underline that fact.   
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   CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2019   
      
      
   Scheer says 'modern convention' means Trudeau must quit if he doesn't win the   
   most seats   
      
   Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer today called on Liberal Leader Justin   
   Trudeau to resign as prime minister if his party does not win the most seats   
   on election day, saying that practice has become a "modern convention in   
   Canadian politics."   
      
   Scheer said that if Trudeau's Liberals slip to second place in the seat count   
   after Monday's vote, he should step aside rather than try to pursue an   
   arrangement with the NDP to hang on to power.   
      
   "It is quite clear that Justin Trudeau will try to do anything to stay in   
   power," Scheer said at a campaign stop in Brampton, Ont.   
      
               [good thing that Scheer is above all that . . .]   
      
   "But what I'm saying is that the party that wins the most seats should be able   
   to form the government and the other convention in modern Canadian politics is   
   that a prime minister who enters into an election and comes out of that   
   election with fewer    
   seats than another party, resigns. That is a modern convention in Canadian   
   politics."   
      
   Former prime minister Paul Martin resigned after the 2006 election handed   
   Opposition leader Stephen Harper and his Conservatives a plurality of seats   
   — but not a majority — in the House of Commons.   
      
   Pierre Elliott Trudeau also promptly resigned as prime minister after Joe   
   Clark's Progressive Conservative party won a plurality of seats in 1979   
   election. Trudeau then rescinded his resignation as Liberal Party leader after   
   Clark's government fell on a    
   confidence vote about nine months later.   
      
   When asked in 2015 if the party with the most number of seats should have the   
   right to try and govern, Justin Trudeau said yes.   
      
   "That's the way it's always been," Trudeau said in an interview with CBC News.   
   "Whoever commands the most seats gets the first shot at governing. Whoever   
   gets the most seats gets the first shot at trying to command the confidence of   
   the House."   
      
   However, confusingly, in the same interview, Trudeau then said "absolutely"   
   the "outgoing prime minister" should have the first crack at testing the   
   confidence of the Commons.   
      
   The talk of resignation comes as the Liberal and Conservative parties are   
   locked in a battle for front-runner status. The CBC's Poll Tracker is   
   projecting that neither party will secure a majority government on Oct. 21.   
      
   NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has said he'd consider working with a Liberal   
   minority government. Trudeau has only said he wants to secure the most seats.   
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   Oct 17;   
      
   Liberals regain small seat edge over Conservatives in neck-and-neck race   
      
   https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/   
      
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