Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Anniversary of a recent coalition government in Canada

Impolitical: Happy anniversary

Bob
Rae writes today about the 25th anniversary of the Liberal-NDP
governing accord in Ontario
. Excerpts presented here for historical
reminiscing and well, who cares it's just good educational, timely and
topical stuff in light of the UK events too:

This week
marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Liberal-NDP Accord in
Ontario. The election in early May of 1985 had elected a minority
parliament, with the Conservatives at 50, the Liberals at 45 and the NDP
at 25. The vote split was roughly 37/37/25.
...

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