Boomers gonna boom.

"After the 2008 federal election, in which the Conservative Party won a larger minority, Harper passed the Economic Action Plan in response to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, prorogued Parliament to defeat a non-confidence motion by a potential coalition of opposition parties and ordered military intervention during the First Libyan Civil War. The 40th Canadian Parliament was eventually dissolved in March 2011, after another no-confidence vote that found his government to be in contempt of Parliament. In the federal election, the Conservatives won a majority government."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_voter_suppression_scandal

I remember these events quite clearly. Everybody HATED this Prime Minister who was trying to turn Canada into a warmongering nation. That's part of why there was this vote of no-confidence and his government was found to be in contempt of Parliament but especially, of the will of the people.

This is a career-ending situation for any politician. And yet, supposedly his party won a majority, something he had never been able to achieve before? I remember the looks of astonishment, dismay and surprise by... EVERYBODY. Online, offline, on the air, off the air, in print, EVERYWHERE.

To me, this clearly demonstrated there was something seriously wrong with our "democracy". There were more instances after that, but this was to me the point at which "voting" became very, very suspicious.