Canada’s disagreeable 2019 election is, at least, an interesting lesson in how to win a minority in a parliamentary system. In short, you can’t. And it matters, even if you live under a different system, because as with mechanical, so with governmental machinery: If you don’t know how it works, it’s hard to run and impossible to fix.
To govern, it has rightly been said, is to choose. And so when you’re “choosing a government” you need to end up giving someone the right to make decisions. And obviously there are a lot of ways it can be done, none entirely satisfactory and many disastrous.
