Quote Originally Posted by Commodore GS/E View Post
Wow, that sounds horrible. Could you explain shortly? Sadly, the canadian elections aren't covered that good by local media .
Canada has 4 parties represented in parliament and a 5th - the Green Party - trying to make it. The two big ones are the Conservatives and the Liberals - vaguely the CDU/CSU and SPD for you guys respectively. The New Democrats are to the left of them, and there is a Quebec nationalist party called the Bloc Quebecois as well.

Canada is not used to coalitions and so if no party wins a majority there is usually just a minority government which rules tenuously. A big scandal 7 years ago caused the Liberal party to go from majority party to minority, and then the Conservatives were elected twice in fairly stable minority governments.

Now, the Conservative party lost a motion of no-confidence due to what the opposition calls a contempt of parliament. The other parties did this as the conservatives did not reveal the specifics of the budget - specifically, the purchase of billions of dollars worth of F-35 lightnings.

That is about that, if you want to know more just ask.