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"We denied a Liberal NDP coalition."
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.
It's not even a coalition.
Coallitons are when the party with the most seats (but not a majority) doesn't form government because the other parties all work together to form government.
When the party with the most seats (but not majority) forms government with the help of another party on non confidence votes , it's just a minority government.
They just try to scare people with the coalition talk to try and make it seem nefarious, such as when it almost happened to Harper, but it's a legitimate part of how our government works.
There was a point while votes were being counted tonight, we could have theoretically had a con+bq coalition government.
Edit: and even as of right now, the cons+bq+ndp could form a coalition, but I can't imagine those 3 parties ever working together other than to trigger an election via vote of no confidence.
Not quite true. Coalitions are typically starting with the party with the largest vote count to invite others into coalition talks. If they find willing partners that make up a majority and there are enough commonalities between all the coalition partners they enter into a contract. And each party in the coalition participate in the government with ministers and everything.
Interesting, I guess I'm wrong on this one, I thought it was only with the minority parties (as in not the seat leader), but it's minority parties that would be pretty much forced to do it to make it work.
We've never had a federal coalition government, only that almost one when Harper prorogued parliament to avoid it.
edit: I do suspect we may have had one if the Conservatives won a small minority though.