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RSS Feeds`Majority or bust´: Scheer´s path to power gets murkier
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

24 august 2019 14:50:12

 
`Majority or bust´: Scheer´s path to power gets murkier
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


OTTAWA–The Conservatives weren’t exactly banking on the New Democrats backing an Andrew Scheer-led minority government this October.But NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision this week to close the door on any co-operation with the Conservatives makes Scheer’s path to power more difficult to game out.“Majority or bust” is the way three senior Conservative sources characterized it to the Star on Friday, speaking on the condition they not be named. By that, they mean a majority government is the only way that Scheer can become prime minister after this fall’s election.While the Liberals’ come-from-behind victory in 2015 — not to mention Donald Trump’s election in 2016 — may have left political watchers leery of making predictions, polling suggests neither Scheer’s Conservatives nor Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party would win a majority if the federal election were held today.Conservative strategists privately admit that if Scheer falls short of a majority, it’s difficult to see how his party could summon enough support to take power — even if it held more seats than any other party.The Conservatives are no strangers to lacking natural allies in the House of Commons, where three of the other four established parties — the Liberals, New Democrats and Greens — sit left of centre on the political spectrum. (The separatist agenda of Bloc Québécois — which is also a left-of-centre party — makes it a highly unlikely partner.)“The Conservatives, in my view, are further right under Andrew Scheer than they have been before. The other parties are further to the left. We are polarizing along left and right lines, not to the same degree as is happening in the U.S., but we’re still moving a little bit more to the extremes,” a senior Conservative source who is not affiliated with the Scheer campaign told the Star.Under former prime minister Step ...


 
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