Christian Courier has picked up my post from last week:
The Liberal-New Democrat Pact, with this description: "It’s a rare move, but one that has precedents in Canadian politics and other Western democracies." An excerpt:
In reality, there is nothing undemocratic about the new agreement. Moreover, one might argue that the Trudeau government is more democratic than it has been up to now. After all, the federal Liberals garnered just under one-third of the popular
vote last year, yet they formed a single-party government over the
objections of more than two-thirds of voters. The Conservatives actually
outpolled the Liberals, gaining 35.2 percent of the vote. Yet our
current single-member-plurality electoral system – often labelled
first-past-the-post (FPTP) – gave the Liberals a plurality of seats in
the Commons. By bringing the NDP onside, the Liberals have actually
increased the popular support for their government, which would in
principle now be supported by 50.4 percent of Canadians. If so, this can
scarcely be called undemocratic.
Read the entire article here.
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