Government: Confidence Game and Minority Government

government: A government needs the support of a majority in parliament to be able to survive, according to Globe and Mail. There has been some analysis to the effect that the Liberals have won a minority government. The first is that parliamentary politics is a confidence game. During the Harper minority governments, the prime minister used to make a point of emphasizing that he had won a mandate to govern, and that any arrangements between other parties was illegitimate. It misstates the fundamental truth about parliamentary democracy it's the House of Commons, or, in the case at hand, the British Columbia legislature, that ultimately decides who forms the government. Partisanship aside, this simply isn't true. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.