Editorial by John Deverell, Catch 22 team

 Stephen Harper, you are either remarkably inventive or arithmetically challenged.  You want a majority government and you’ll happily accept it, without majority popular support, as “the will of the people.

If you’re held to a Parliamentary minority, as you were in 2006 and 2008—you’ll trumpet that too as the automatic right to govern,  “a democratic mandate.” If the majority of MPs in the next Parliament somehow…