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That's not how it works. If the conservatives can't get a majority, the liberals can form a minority government with the NDP or greens. This is what our government currently looks like and it got us dental healthcare. Minority governments can be very effective at creating social change, especially when most Canadians have to be dragged kicking and screaming into policies that benefit them.
Ok, you are telling me the most basic shit like it's news. I know what a minority government is, I just don't think the NDP has done anything worthy and the Green party is a wreck, so I think most seats will go either blue or red with the bloc being the only party that might have a chance in hell of pulling enough seats to play spoiler and become the swing votes in Parliament.
See Parliament after the 2006 election, except replace Jack Layton with Singh, i.e. maybe two seats of they're lucky
He’s explaining basic shit to you because what you’re saying makes people think you need basic shit explained to you. He wasn’t even being a dick about it. I have no such qualms about being a dick.
Sexist!
Also given the projected seats right now, your "point" about "strategic voting" just makes you seem kind of dumb. The only Green candidate worth a damn is Clancy, polling behind the Liberal party in her riding, and the party of Tommy Douglas is looking at six MPs or less.
It's a two horse race and it's looking like it will not be close, so whether you vote for Santa Claus or your grandad, there will be three recognized parties at the most post-election, LPC, CPC and BQ, and the latter two almost certainly won't have the votes to make a difference anyway.
Understand that in some ridings, like mine, the liberal candidate is not fucking viable because the only candidates people have ever voted for by a large margin are conservative or NDP. My riding gets like 1% tops liberal vote. So if I vote liberal here, I might as well be voting conservative because there is zero chance the liberal will get in here. This is such simple shit that I have second hand embarrassment for you for having to explain this.