The new governor general says he sees nothing wrong or illegitimate with coalition governments — something Prime Minister Stephen Harper has attacked for being “undemocratic.”
“I think that most jurisdictions that have a system of first-past-the-post or proportional representation will from time to time have coalitions or amalgamation of different parties and that’s the way democracy sorts itself out,” he said.
And in this, it is Mr. Johnston who has the authority and power to decide.
