Canada 2011 Official Thread

[Mr. Morden]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6322728

The US should follow suit and ensure that the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates don't interfere with the MLB playoffs

Didn't the Australian debate between Gillard and Abbott get moved last year because it interfered with Masterchef...?

Yes.  Also, Obama's 2010 State of the Union was scheduled to avoid a conflict with the season premiere of Lost.

[Mr. Morden]

I'm a bit confused about some of the predictions.  More or less everyone is predicting that in terms of seat totals (and popular vote), it'll be:

1st place: Cons
2nd place: NDP
3rd place: Libs
4th place: BQ

but with no party getting a majority.  But some are predicting an NDP minority government?  How will that work?  If, say, NDP+Libs has more seats than the Conservatives, but still not a majority, will the NDP really form a minority government propped up by both the Libs and BQ?  What is the likely threshold beyond which we'd expect to see an NDP minority government rather than a Conservative one?