Juno News - May： Coalition Talks to Prevent Majority Power

00:00:00.000 We have been in conversation with different levels of insiders within the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party.

00:00:09.160 We've talked to colleagues in Parliament.

00:00:11.420 What kind of interest would there be in listening to the voices of Canadians,

00:00:16.720 like the grassroots group that has sprung up of Cooperate for Canada,

00:00:22.660 who want to see parties sit down and talk to each other about how we can potentially cooperate,

00:00:30.000 across this country and be able to have that common resolve that survives an election,

00:00:36.600 be able to envision a parliament that functions well together, taking on the threats that Canada

00:00:44.060 faces. To do that, we wanted to make this press conference today a public commitment to be

00:00:52.100 willing to talk to other parties, to talk about what it takes in a perverse first-past-the-post

00:00:59.120 voting system to remind Canadians that we don't elect a prime minister in this country.

00:01:05.780 We elect a parliament.

00:01:07.600 There are currently five parties in the House of Commons.

00:01:11.200 And if we were to find a way to cooperate, we could ensure at least that neither one

00:01:17.220 of the big parties gets a false majority with 100 percent of the power with less than 50

00:01:23.780 percent of public support.

00:01:25.900 There are many examples in past history of Canada, but the main thing is we won't get

00:01:31.060 cooperation if we don't even sit down to talk about it.

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