Minority Government in Canada: The Stephen Harper Experience
@article{Cody2008MinorityGI, title={Minority Government in Canada: The Stephen Harper Experience}, author={Howard Cody}, journal={American Review of Canadian Studies}, year={2008}, volume={38}, pages={27 - 42} }
"The art of minority government is engineering defeat on the most favourable terms." (1) Canada's politics, consistent with Britain's history under the same plurality electoral system (known as "first-past-the-post," or FPP), considers majority governments to be the norm. The largest party in the House of Commons usually has more than half the members of Parliament (MPs). Through the quarter-century between 1980 and 2004, Canadians elected six consecutive majorities. Since Canada's voters…
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