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Who’s Being Undemocratic?

Dec 1, 08

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The Liberals, NDP, and Bloc are finally working together to form a functional coalition government which represents Canadians far more accurately than the Tory minority we currently have, yet people all over are accusing it of being undemocratic. It’s no surprise that the conservatives are whining, they don’t want to loose totalitarian grip over the other 60% of the country. But even some non-conservatives are buying into the fabrication that a coalition is somehow undemocratic, unjust, or otherwise illegitimate.

The only argument that’s being used against this coalition is that Canadians elected a “Tory government”, and that it is disrespectful or dishonest for the other parties to “steal” the government from them. This is such a flawed argument I’d be amused at its ubiquitous adoption if it weren’t so said that so many Canadians are either idiots or too lazy to look up the facts.