Via Silver-Powers, 58% of the Canadian public is opposed to the "coalition if necessary but not necessarily coalition" policy.
Admittedly I am kind of biased in favour of this policy, but I still cannot imagine why that many people would be opposed to it.
I see why some are. Some people want the Conservatives to stay in power no matter what. Some people want the Conservatives to be overthrown no matter what. But 58% seems really high. "Coalition if necessary..." means the opposition parties will allow the government to govern if it governs adequately, and cause it to fall if it does not govern adequately. Surely 58% of Canadians don't prefer blind partisanship to that?
Hopefully this is just a symptom of the flaws in the poll that Mr. Powers and the commenters point out.
2 comments:
This is disturbing.
"means the opposition parties will allow the government to govern if it governs adequately, and cause it to fall if it does not govern adequately." Yes, but what's adequately? Every party has a different opinion about this. And I think this is what most of the Canadians are afraid of - that our government will be stuck somewhere in the middle, unable to make proper decisions (ehm, but is it able to do it now? :$)...
Jay
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