• @chonglibloodsport
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    63 months ago

    Right, but suppose these percentages turned directly into seats via PR.

    With 42% of the seats, the Conservatives wouldn’t have much trouble forming a coalition with the Bloc to get to 50%. It could come right down to 1 seat but in all likelihood they could make it.

    Would you be happy with this outcome?

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        43 months ago

        It’s not that simple. The Bloc support a number of positions (mainly around immigration and language laws, minorities, and religious clothing) that we would consider hard right in the rest of the country. They could definitely find common ground with the Conservatives on an anti-immigration bill, for example.

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          03 months ago

          religious clothing

          That’s left wing

          Right wing are the religious people

          Conservatives on an anti-immigration bill,

          They could with the NDP but not the Cons who promise to make immigration easier

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              13 months ago

              It’s fine but I think the person’s problem is that they think anything they don’t like is right wing and they don’t view parties as having opinions across the board

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                  3 months ago

                  The comment you replied to already addressed that

                  they don’t view parties as having opinions across the board

                  And if you follow the other chain then you’ll see they mistakenly thought it didn’t apply to Christians so after being corrected they most likely agree with the law

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              It does though….

              The only exceptions are tattoos (banned in Christianity) and hair (nothing specific in Christianity)

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      33 months ago

      I doubt the Tories and the Bloc would form a coalition, Tories went hard against coalitions and framed them as illegal and a power grab back in the Harper years, when they prorogued parliament to effectively kill it, the Bloc was in a supply agreement with that proposed coalition, the Bloc themselves don’t align with Tory policies.

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        43 months ago

        I suppose yeah. I think the hard part about convincing the Liberals to pass PR is that they probably fear this sort of thing becoming a permanent arrangement: Conservative pluralities, coalitions, and never getting a shot at a Liberal majority again.