coalitions

Small talk about big issues: A video series to help make sense of the campaign

Maclean’s is your destination for the 2015 election. Start with our in-depth primers on the big issues, including coalitions

Paul Wells on Andrea Horwath, the Ontario Liberals and a stack of hypotheticals

It shouldn’t matter, but it probably will

The question, it seems to me, is a simple one: can the party that didn’t win the most seats in a Canadian election legitimately form a government? Well, I guess it would be better to say deceptively simple.

There’s nothing like starting a campaign by calling your opponent an outright liar

Here’s a zany suggestion: if you want to know what people think about coalitions, ask them

Paul Wells on Stephen Harper’s habit of telling us exactly what he’s going to do

As we lead up to the return of the House, battle lines are being drawn over the legitimacy of the forgotten-but-not-dead coalition. Two clear positions have emerged: On the one side, there is a group we can call the Democrats. The Democrats believe that while the coalition may be constitutionally  ok in a narrow, legal sense, it violates basic principles of democratic legitimacy. Two prominent Democrats are Michael Bliss and Norman Spector.

BY JOHN GEDDES

Must-reads: Greg Weston, John Ivison and Chantal Hébert recap election night.

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