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|  Message 39438  |
|  Aaron Thomas to Matt Munson  |
|  Re: Tim's Funnel  |
|  18 Jan 26 15:40:46  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49 MSGID: 1:342/201 7a3c32ed REPLY: 154608.politics@1:103/705 2dd41180 TZUTC: -0800 MM> AT> What do you mean by a minority? I don't understand; aren't the Libera MM> AT> Party the majority? MM> In a parlimentary system you need a number of seats to form a MM> government. If you have less than required to form a government you need MM> to have another party to team up with you. So in Canada, the Liberal MM> Party teams up with the NDP. But in this term of the government, the NDP MM> does not really want to be active colliation partners. 172 seats is MM> required for a majority. They only have 170. So the Liberal Party is MM> running under a minority government right now. --- SBBSecho 3.34-Linux Thanks for this explanation. So the Carney election isn't a death sentence like it was here when Biden was president. The Canadians really do have some good ideas. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64) * Origin: JoesBBS.Com, Telnet:23 SSH:22 HTTP:80 (1:342/201) SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/14 305 153/7715 154/110 218/700 SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 134 206 300 307 317 400 426 428 SEEN-BY: 229/470 700 705 266/512 291/111 292/854 320/219 322/757 342/200 SEEN-BY: 342/201 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35 PATH: 342/201 200 229/426 |
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