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Minority governments are always better for democracy
As long as there is someone in opposition who is willing to work with the government to come up with acceptable middle-ground solutions, and not simply get in the way of the governing party as much as possible.
We need to drop the American idea of "the opposition". It's incredibly fucked up to think that about half the government is there simply to stop the other half.
3 "major" parties is the bare minimum to keep is out of what's happening down there. The Left and Right. The Good and the Bad. Us versus the Enemy.
We need 7 or 8 major parties with at least 5% of the seats whose goals are to earn enough seats to influence Canadian policy on behalf of Canadians, not 2 major parties whose goal is to control the government. That goal always leaves Canada second (or third, when corporate interest buys it's way in).
When I refer to "the opposition" I intend that to mean all the parties that aren't the current governing party. Including (but not limited to) His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
In the most recent parliament, the NDP was an opposition party, but one that was willing to work somewhat cooperately with the governing party to accomplish several positive outcomes for citizens.
While at the same time, the "official opposition" party was being as stubbornly obstructionist as possible.
That is what I was referring to.