For the Record - Feb. 2, 2007
Canada: An article in Monday’s Section A referred to Canada’s government as a “coalition.” A coalition involves a formal agreement among two or more parties in Parliament to form a government. The Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has 125 of the 308 seats in the lower house of Parliament; after Canada’s last elections it formed a minority government, not a coalition.
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