{"id":5624,"date":"2011-05-03T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2011-05-04T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T07:57:16","slug":"election-surprises-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5624","title":{"rendered":"Election surprises in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5540\">a posting<\/a> a few days ago warning that the Canadian general election might have a surprise or two for us, but the actual result is astonishing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conservative Party &#8211; which has formed the last two governments on a minority basis &#8211; was forced into this election by a vote of no confidence, when it was found to be in contempt of parliament because of a range of public expenditure measures, and yet it managed to win an overall majority of the seats.<\/li>\n<li>The New Democratic Party &#8211; which is a centre-left body &#8211; did spectacularly well by increasing the number of its seats from 37 to 102.<\/li>\n<li>The Liberal Party &#8211; which has always previously come first or second &#8211; had a disaster with its seats falling from 77 to 34 which put it in third place.<\/li>\n<li>The Bloc Quebecois &#8211; which supports separatism for Quebec &#8211; did spectacularly badly when its seats fell from 47 to 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information on the election <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13259484\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For background, you might like to read my <a href=\"..\/..\/Canadianpoliticalsystem.html\">&#8220;Short Guide To The Canadian Political System&#8221;<\/a> which does not include the results of Monday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a posting a few days ago warning that the Canadian general election might have a surprise or two for us, but the actual result is astonishing: The Conservative Party &#8211; which has formed the last two governments on a minority basis &#8211; was forced into this election by a vote of no confidence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}