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Yeah it's pretty annoying when he claims to represent the majority when 61% of Canadians (who voted) voted for someone else.
by nkassis 15y ago
Yeah it's pretty annoying when he claims to represent the majority when 61% of Canadians (who voted) voted for someone else.
- cperciva 15y agoThe word "majority" has been (mis)used to mean "plurality" for a long time.
- skylan_q 15y agoRight. The last "majority" was 50.04% of the vote back in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1984 What's with this new attitude of hating parliament if it's not your party with a majority?
- afterburner 15y agoWhen it became in vogue for the majority party to simply ignore those that did not vote for it? Although it's not too extreme in Canada yet.
- cperciva 15y agoThe last "majority" was 50.04% of the vote back in 1984 Indeed, and prior to Mulroney in 1984 the only true majorities were Diefenbaker in 1958, once during each world war (both of which were distinctly atypical elections), and 1904 and earlier.