This is what a coalition agreement looks like - The Coalition: Our programme for government (PDF). BBC provides the summary here.
I am particularly impressed by this, from p27 of the agreement:
"We will whip both Parliamentary parties in both Houses to support a simple majority referendum on the Alternative Vote."
Canadian politics and the behaviour of Canada's politicians appear so petty and small in comparison.
My thanks to Doug Saunders, European Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail, for tweeting the above links.
ETA: Some readers appear not to have noted the point of emphasis above. I support a referendum on electoral reform whose result is based on a simple majority, not the super majorities (60 percent) that Canadian provinces have imposed. I do not support the Alternative Vote, which is another winner-take-all system, not a proportional one.
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