10-21-2019, 01:21 PM
(10-21-2019, 10:42 AM)Maggot Wrote: That's almost as if England never left. I will have to read that a few times to "get it"
Yeah, it does have a lot of elements of the English system.
As in England, the Canadian people don't directly vote in their Prime Minister, as I understand it.
They only vote in Members of Parliament. The party that gets the most MPs elected wins and the leader of that party becomes the Prime Minister. The current leaders of the two major Canadian parties, Liberal Trudeau and Conservative Scheer, are reportedly still neck and neck.
Anyway, whether the Liberal or Conservative wins, if the smaller parties take away enough votes from the two dominant parties to prevent a majority for either party in Parliament, the newly elected Prime Minister will have to adjust the agenda to appease the interests of the smaller parties in order to form a new government.
And, the odds of a Canadian Prime Minister staying in power for a full term while heading a minority-formed government are not great.
The results should be known and announced tonight or tomorrow morning.