About The PQ

Doctors at an international conference were discussing their medical cases

A doctor from Germany says ``We had a patient who had lost his testicles in an accident and we transplanted him with both testicles. Six weeks later he was looking for work”
 

Another doctor from the U.S. says ``We did better than that, we had a patient who had a severe heart condition so we gave him a new heart and four weeks later he was looking for work”

A doctor from Russia says ``We had a patient with a very sick brain, did a transplant and two weeks later he was looking for work”
 

The Quebec doctor says ``We picked a woman who had no heart, no brain and ``no balls”, made her Premier and a year from now all Quebecers will be looking for work”

One of my favorite commenters, Paul, pointed out during one of my rants that while the PQ received 31% of the plurality nearly 60% of Quebecers rejected them.

This is true.

But isn't this a common feature in all Parliamentary democracies? Very Western governments get elected with a 51% plurality. Even in the USA (which is a non-Parliamentary Republic) the country is basically divided in two.

The bottom line is 30% is sometimes enough to form a majority government the way things are set up. It so happens it thankfully gave the PQ a minority.

I heard this rationale with Harper when he got his majority. All of a sudden it mattered that 66% of the people didn't vote for him. Yeah, because 66% of the people couldn't accept the democratic fate of having a Conservative majority government.

60% of the population always generally don't vote for the other party. Majority government are formed by the number of seats; not plurality. When the Liberals were winning this didn't matter apparently.

Look it up. Historically, no party wins 50% + 1.