[Newsbot]

Title: Canada Conservatives in reach of majority: poll
Category: Political
Posted By: tritium
Date: 2008-09-17 01:44:00
Canadian

[tritium]

Wow, looks like it will be a Conservative win with the NDP as the official opposition if you listen to all the polls.

Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?

[roger-roger]

I could see my job getting worse and worse if the NDP got in.

[QBall]

tritium tritium:

Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?

<shivers> That should be the subject of a new Stephen King novel.

[mtbr]

NDP win

socialist fantasyland

[DrCaleb]

I wonder if they survey the same 1,502 people enough times, the remaining 36 million of us might actually start to believe it.

[Pseudonym]

What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.

[robmik43]

A majority here means the government doesn't have to
kiss an opposition party's ass to get their legislation through.
They don't have to water down what they want to do so it will pass
a vote.
It's a little bit like your presidential-congress-senate system...
if your president doesn't have a party majority in the house and senate,
there are many types of initiatives he cannot get approved.

[martin14]

Pseudonym Pseudonym:

What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.

simplistically, we elect a dictator for 4 years who can do
whatever the heck they want.
Til the next election, anyway

[bootlegga]

WDHIII WDHIII:

tritium tritium:

Wouldn't it be a buzz if the NDP won, and conservatives were the opposition?

Would ALMOST be worth it just to have the pleasure of watchin a few heads explode

LMAO...I love that exploding head gif!

[xerxes]

Pseudonym Pseudonym:

What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.

A majority mean that the majority party will form the government, select the cabinet ministers and table legislation.

Though with the number of parties we have, the majority isn't a true majority, mainly it's a party with the most number of overall seats.

[faile]

xerxes xerxes:

Pseudonym Pseudonym:

What exactly is implied by a majority in Canada's governmental system? Nothing particularly special happens down here, but then again, someone always does have a majority down here. Maybe I should just wiki it.

A majority mean that the majority party will form the government, select the cabinet ministers and table legislation.

Though with the number of parties we have, the majority isn't a true majority, mainly it's a party with the most number of overall seats.

You're thinking of a plurality.

The word majority refers to a 'true' majority even in Canada.

[Reverend Blair]

A majority in Canada is simple...a government has more than half of the seats. There's 308 seats, so 155 seats is a majority. That allows the government side to put through whatever legislation they want. It also gives them a majority of seats on committees, where most of the real work is done.

A Harper majority would be an unmitigated disaster for Canada.

[Public_Domain]

[Toro]

$1:

Ekos pollster Paul Adams said the data also showed "a dramatic tightening in the race for second spot, with the New Democrats now within striking distance of overtaking the Liberals."

The New Democrats, the left-of-center party that until now has been the smallest party in Parliament, is at 19 percent in the Ekos survey, followed by the Green Party at 11 percent and the separatist Bloc Quebecois at 9.

C'mon, you knee-dippers!