It looks more and more like Harper’s only hope of forming next government is to win a majority, which latest polls suggest is unlikely.
Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and his son Xavier cut vegetables while his daughter Ella-Grace cuts pies for a Thanksgiving meal at an Ottawa soup kitchen. Earlier in the day he and Thomas Mulcair told CTV they wouldn't back a Harper-led minority government.
Stephen Harper’s only hope of forming a government after next Monday’s election is if his Conservative party wins enough votes to form a majority.
That was the message his opponents tried to send loud and clear on Sunday, when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair both declared they wouldn’t prop up a minority government with Harper at the helm.
Both Trudeau and Mulcair had said earlier they wouldn’t back a Conservative minority. But with the election exactly one week away and opinion polls suggesting it could be difficult for any party to secure a majority of seats in the House of Commons, it appears likely that whoever comes first in the Oct. 19 vote will need the support of a rival to govern.
In an interview on CTV’s Question Period, Trudeau said one of the reasons he entered politics was because his concern over the direction in which Harper was taking the country.
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