OutInTheRain
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The King-Byng was kind of this. The Conservatives had won the 1925 election, but the Liberals used some friendly opposition MPs to remain in power. Later they were defeated in a non-confidence vote, and Byng offered the Cons the attempt to form a government rather than acceding to Mackenzie King's request to call an election. As the Cons had technically won the election. It became a thing and an election was called anyway.Bro how do you think an opposition coalition gets into power???
First they vote no-confidence, then they hope the GG asks them to form government. Only works if there was a recent election, but even then if the PM suggests a new election the GG is supposed to just do whatever the PM says.
It's a very grey area. With Harper the parties were pissed he was removing the vote subsidy. All official parties in Canada get subsidized per vote received. It's like 2 dollars per vote or something. They could technically have taken over the government if they agreed to form a coalition. However after prorogation cooler heads prevailed, and everyone realized that all three of those parties would have been massively punished at the polls.
So they can do it, but you would have no mandate to lead. Which is why in this case the most you could do is a single day coalition government and immediately call an election.