The party with the most seats doesn't always get to govern

Aaron Wherry of the CBC, reports that the party with the most seats doesn’t always govern.

Who gets first try at government?

Andrew Scheer is making a political argument about how Parliaments work - and implying that argument has the force of law. In an email to supporters on Wednesday, the Conservative Party warned of a plot to subvert democracy in Canada. The Liberals, a Conservative official wrote, were "already planning a way to take power without winning the election." It's the sort of language typically reserved for describing military coups and authoritarian movements. In this case, the Conservatives were describing a scenario which would see the Liberals govern with the support of other parties, even if they don't win the most seats next week.

But that is not a fact. The party with the most seats doesn't always get to govern. If Scheer's "fact" was a fact, John Horgan currently wouldn't be the premier of British Columbia….if there is an unclear result on Oct. 21 — and if that result inspires a loud partisan campaign to question the legitimacy of certain outcomes — Canadians will need to understand what history has shown us about how the Canadian political system actually works.1

If Scheer's "fact" was a fact, John Horgan currently wouldn't be the premier of British Columbia.

References

1	(2019, October 18). No, the party with the most seats doesn't always govern | CBC .... Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scheer-trudeau-minority-government-2019-election-1.5324496