Reply #65: and going even farther back ;)

[iverglas]

You end up with a bunch of slack-jawed seatwarmers like Jag Bhaduria, a Liberal candidate and later MP who had absolutely no qualification for the job except for the fact that he wasn't from Brian Mulroney's party. Is that what you want?

-- you end up with the entire population of the government benches in Brian Mulroney's government. ;)

Nobody had the remotest expectation that the Progressive Conservatives would win seats in Quebec. Nobody with a grain of sense or qualifications wanted the PC nomination in a Quebec riding. The massive anti-Liberal vote resulted in a boxful of doorknobs getting elected in Quebec, and us getting a Brian Mulroney government.

Lessons to learn.

Of course, I vote party, myself. ;)