Posted by AT on October 28, 2009, 10:07 am, in reply to "Re: Essay: My TA apparently knows very little about Canada's monarchy?"
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"To then hand them the reins of government(even if part of a coalition) would smack of partisanship(the GG having been nominated [alone I might add] by a Liberal government)."
Actually it would smack of parliamentary democracy.
"But they did not run as a coalition(or for that matter say they would consider it if the need arose) and there is some evidence this coalition would not have been stable. "
This is of course a red herring, along the lines of Harper's suggestion of a coup. Parties don't run to form a coalition. The fact that it does not come up very often in a Canadian context just feeds ignorance about the functioning of our parliament.
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