You'll notice I said, "PARLIAMENTARY law and tradition the world over." You guys don't use a parliamentary system, therefore you're not covered. Any system that IS parliamentary leaves room for coalition governments.
We've been changing often lately, but that hasn't been the case for most of Canadian history. We go through long periods of stable majority governments with one party or the other - usually the Liberals, occasionally the Conservatives - and then, when that particular group of leaders inevitably implodes under the pressure of time and routine, we go through a few years of minorities until one party or the other has a strong enough majority to start the cycle again. Since the last period of stability lasted well over a decade, it's understandable if the next one takes its time coming. In another two or three years, we should be settling down into another period of stability.
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Date: 2008-12-03 09:57 pm (UTC)We've been changing often lately, but that hasn't been the case for most of Canadian history. We go through long periods of stable majority governments with one party or the other - usually the Liberals, occasionally the Conservatives - and then, when that particular group of leaders inevitably implodes under the pressure of time and routine, we go through a few years of minorities until one party or the other has a strong enough majority to start the cycle again. Since the last period of stability lasted well over a decade, it's understandable if the next one takes its time coming. In another two or three years, we should be settling down into another period of stability.