Talk:Minority governments in Canada
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This is my first attempt at a non-orthographical/non-grammatical edit (AKA non-minor edit). There are most-definitely errors. Please, therefore, feel free to hack, revert, and slash to your heart’s content.
If someone with a bit more experience than I could please make an executive decision as to the 'currentosity' of the Paul Martin section and either keep or remove the current event banner, I would be much obliged.
As well, I’d like to know how to better-word/handle the external link at the end.
– Aeolien 02:37, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
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[edit] Thank you SimonP
Many thanks for the heads up, SimonP. I realize that there is probably a better system. However, I found that, without the headings, the article was incredibly hard to read and follow. It definitely needed some sort of structure.
On a somewhat related note, does Arthur Meighen get his own section? Even then, that makes 7 of the reported 10 minority governments. I hope to take some time tomorrow or the next day to track down the missing sections.
Aeolien 03:28, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
- You are very right, the page looks much better now. What you are missing is that King, Diefenbaker, and Pearson each had two minority governments. - SimonP 04:12, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
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- Great! Now, how should the double-minority governments be displayed. I don't believe that they should be their own additional section, but should be separated/divided into two sections somehow. – Aeolien 05:36, 2005 May 15 (UTC)
[edit] Minority government with smallest percentage of seats
Hmm, the Conservatives have only 40.3% of the seats. I started looking through historical results, and got back through the 1960's, but still couldn't find a government that had the most seats, but had fewer than 40.3%. Did I miss something? This would make this a very weak minority government! Nfitz 07:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think there was one. In fact, there have been minority governments where the second place party led the government and still had a higher percentage than the Conservatives presently do. Could be the weakest government on record (parliamentary speaking), but I'll keep looking. --Otter Escaping North 16:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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- Take a look at the first couple of elections. It's an odd situation. The Conservatives won with less than 40% in 1867 and 1872 (with 31.5%). The problem is, Macdonald was the leader of the Conservatives and the Liberal-Conservatives, and so controlled both parties. Anyway, check it out - very weird. --Otter Escaping North 16:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- So would it be fair to say (given that Macdonald essentially governed as a majority) that this is the weakest minority government since Confederation? Nfitz 02:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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- I've been walking around saying just that. --Otter Escaping North 13:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Weakness really needs to be definied and clarified in this case. If it is purely a mathematical measure of power than needs to be explicitly stated. If it is a measure of how the power is used by the Government in office than it is a much stronger minority Government than either the Clark or Martin minorities. What do you mean by MacDonald governing *as if* he had a majority. He always had majorities. The Liberal-Conservatives always ran wth the understanding the would sit with the Conservatives in the House. Schoeppe 06:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Graphs Need Legends!
I'd ad them myself but I don't know what they are, someone who knows what the colours represent should add one.
[edit] Reasons for absence of formal coalitions?
This would require some real live research and citations from reliable secondary sources, but it would be interesting to know why formal coalition governments never really became a part of Canadian political culture, considering that minority governments seem to happen fairly frequently there. I'm interested in how the election in Quebec will play out in this regard: would there be any way for the second and third parties to form a government if they agreed formally or informally to support one another? --Jfruh (talk) 01:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
