POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Immanence, Responsible Government
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Party that wins most seats needs to be in power, unless voters say otherwise. Then the opposite says if you get the most seats, you get opportunity to perform government, then you see what happens after. To harper, what matter is what the voters say. Whether something is real or not it doesn"t matter because we are talking about if we can get away with anything. You had minority government that lost confidence and you had last election that was 7 months before, which is usually 8-9. Conservative government in this particular parliament going to be very stable and wont last long. By refusing advice there could be a lot of backlash. The government here lost the election because they won less seats than the conservative. Confidence lost, alternative leader, and was given opportunity. Last elections very recent since it was less than 2 months. The one above was 7 months, which was quite short already.
