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It's the classic scheme of the third party. Conservatives fund the NDP to split the liberal vote, and off to another conservative government. Fml
That's... not how parliamentary governments work.
You're not voting for a PM, you're voting for an MP and if a bunch of MPs from different parties decide to band together in a coalition they can force in a government from a non-plurality party.
Doesn't matter how it works in the technical sense. Many people will vote or not vote for a party based on their leader.
That's cool - but it still won't result in a third party spoil. Because the system doesn't work like that.
I .. dont see how that applies to what I just said. You're ignoring a lot about politics and looking at the "bright side scenario" to come to that conclusion, it's unlikely to happen and is still advantageous to conservatives eho can do the same. You're still voting for a party on a spectrum
It's not an unlikely scenario, the past two elections haven't resulted in a majority government (which I personally think is extremely healthy). If this poll was the seat proportion on election day we'd likely see something a bit rarer where the plurality party would be excluded from government but it'd be pretty consistent with the past two elections... Trudeau's popularity slumps while CPC palatability to other Canadians continues to decline. Lil' PP certainly isn't going to attract any centrist voters.
People are taking your bait on the 3rd party bullshit, but this cannot be overlooked:
Don't choke on your tinfoil or anything. Especially not in the name of supporting a right wing party LARPing as something progressive.
Sure, liberals are LARPing as progressive. I'm sure you're going to be thrilled when the conservatives start turning over abortion laws, bring religion into politics and cut more checks to the corporations. That's what they did to our teeth last time. Or better yet, them spending time REDUCING the legal age of consent. Yknow, very cool and very legal policies.