Canada

Great, a provincial special interest party now holds the balance of power in the nation's Parliament. A crappy day for Canadian democracy.

Much as I dislike the BQ, it has to be said, Blanchet has cajones

"I am happily assuming that if and when the Bloc will bring down the Liberals, Mr. Legault will support the Bloc Québécois"

This isn't getting called out as the crisis that it really is. Imagine the narrative if any other single province had the influence that the BQ is right now exercising. News outlets would be spinning up the sirens.

Were the cons seriously not intelligent enough to see they’d lose that motion?

Oh ya. Grandstanding without substance. It’s their way.

Any one who assumes that another party is going to blanket support a non-confidence vote doesn't understand how minority governments work.

These are times when other parties have the leverage to influence what bills are being passed.

If things got bad enough that no other parties agreed with direction then ya we would be heading to vote, but realistically things aren't that bad right now, they could always be better, but it's not bad enough to just throw away leverage.

I don't have confidence in the Liberal government, but I am confident the Conservatives would be worse.

The Bloc Québécois is ruling out the possibility that Canadians will be plunged into an early election next week, signalling Wednesday their intention to vote against a Conservative motion of non-confidence in the government.

With the Bloc declaring they won't support a motion for a election plus the NDP and Green unlikely supporting Pierre. It appears no one outside of Conservatives want Conservatives to run the country.

That said the Conservatives is still polling at 43% ± 4% popular vote with at 99%+ chance of winning the most seats.