Small talk about big issues: A video series to help make sense of the campaign
Tag Archives: coalitions
Election Issues 2015: A Maclean’s primer on coalitions
Maclean’s is your destination for the 2015 election. Start with our in-depth primers on the big issues, including coalitions
Ontario: coalition dreaming
Paul Wells on Andrea Horwath, the Ontario Liberals and a stack of hypotheticals
Ignatieff talks minority scenarios
It shouldn’t matter, but it probably will
Who gets to govern? Venturing deep into the post-May 2 scenario weeds
The question, it seems to me, is a simple one: can the party that didn’t win the most seats in a Canadian election legitimately form a government? Well, I guess it would be better to say deceptively simple.
The clash over coalitions on the campaign’s first day
There’s nothing like starting a campaign by calling your opponent an outright liar
Adventures in polling
Here’s a zany suggestion: if you want to know what people think about coalitions, ask them
“Somebody will have a majority”
Paul Wells on Stephen Harper’s habit of telling us exactly what he’s going to do
The Madness: Democrats vs Parliamentarians
As we lead up to the return of the House, battle lines are being drawn over the legitimacy of the forgotten-but-not-dead coalition. Two clear positions have emerged: On the one side, there is a group we can call the Democrats. The Democrats believe that while the coalition may be constitutionally ok in a narrow, legal sense, it violates basic principles of democratic legitimacy. Two prominent Democrats are Michael Bliss and Norman Spector.
Harper should have seen it coming
BY JOHN GEDDES