So, exactly what was the point of that election, again?
Sure, a few things changed - the far-left party got someone elected in Québec for the first time ever (other than in a by-election) and the middle-right party got a few more seats in Ontario, to name two - but there's still a minority government, and the same guy is still the Prime Minister, and the Greens (the closest we've got to a centrist party now) still don't have a seat in the Commons.
And every single incumbent in Ottawa-Gatineau was re-elected.
Consider this posting my first "complaining about the government" this parliament...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Sure, a few things changed - the far-left party got someone elected in Québec for the first time ever (other than in a by-election) and the middle-right party got a few more seats in Ontario, to name two - but there's still a minority government, and the same guy is still the Prime Minister, and the Greens (the closest we've got to a centrist party now) still don't have a seat in the Commons.
And every single incumbent in Ottawa-Gatineau was re-elected.
Consider this posting my first "complaining about the government" this parliament...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012