What a Long Strange Parliament It's Been

(UPDATED with inconvenient truths) Politics, like baseball, offers endless opportunity for important-sounding trivia. Like this: The last time a minority government was re-elected in Canada was 1968. Joe Clark lost in 1980 and Paul Martin in 2006, so it’s now 40 years since Canadians liked enough of what they saw of a minority government to return it. (UPDATE: Not true.) And since that was Pearson’s Liberals newly headed by Trudeau, that’s probably not even a good comparative case. So we really should look back to 1965, when Pearson’s minority Liberals won re-election with another minority. (UPDATE: No we shouldn’t.)