Everyone is denying a formal coalition, which is ok because nobody except the liberals will be eager for another election anytime soon.
the conservative problem is that their entire support base comes from alberta and western rural areas. The only support they have elsewhere are old PC ridings that remained loyal and ridings where people are slightly right leaning and very mad at the liberals.
If it wasnt for the bloc stealing quebec we would hav a majority.
as it stands, the Conservatives are still not a contender, and the NDP is vote splitting with the liberals, because all the leftists cant decide which of the two parties to vote for in order to stop the conservatives.
Untill the conservatives win over the old school PC base they are fucked, and they wont do that anytime soon because the conservative stronghold in the country, in terms of both leadership and party membership, is alberta, and all of their policies will reflect that.
The funny thing is that if all those old diehard PC people who are so pissed off about the merger would join the Conservative party they could actually have a say in their policy convention and hold enough clout to make it a moderate, electable party. Stupid fucking conservatives
The really shitty thing is that due to our non proportional representation system the conservatives and bloc got more seats than their popular vote should allow, making a seperatist party and a regional interest ingnorant party together make up almost half of parliament.