For those of you that are framillier with Canadian politics you know that for about the last 5 years or so the Canadian government has been a little unstable. We have had 3 elections in this time, all of them minority governments, in which the ruling political party has needed the support of one or more opposition parties to pass any laws. Up untill now everything about this power struggle has been peaceful and democratic. That has changed just recentaly.
Last week the three opposition parties united to over through the government, usually this practice is aceptable, the leading party did something to make the others mad, and create grounds for an election. This time the situation is different, the current government hasn't been in power for two months yet, and hasn't done anything controversial. What makes this situation so horrible is that if the government is othethrown we will not just have an election and let the voters decide who they want to lead the country, the opposition wants to unite the three parties and form an unelected colition government, these three parties are: The liberals, the NDP (socialists) and the Bloc Quebecoise(seperatists, and not the cool kind with droids either) These three parties want to work together to take control of Canada unelected and without any public support.
This is a grave time for the future of Canada, if you couldn't make a whole lot of sense of what I wrote, please read this:
http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1004/107731