Get used to it. Whenever the Trudeau Liberal government climbs up on a soapbox to claim it has a mandate for anything – much less the complete reordering of Canada’s society and economy – I am going to point out that they were elected with the smallest share of the popular vote of any federal government in Canadian history.
Indeed, they received so few votes in September, that had they followed through on their first-term promise to end first-past-the-post elections, they might well not even be the government now.
Since I oppose proportional representation, I can’t object entirely to the party with the most seats forming the government, even if it is a minority. That said, the Liberals don’t have a mandate to do much of anything.
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