1988 is stark case where Mulroney did not take majority of votes cast but formed majority gov't and did change Canada in anti-labour way against public will.
Mulroney's was a false-majority government.
Unlike the 1987 NB election where majority of people actually did vote for McKenna government, just not in numbers implied by his party's 100-percent clean sweep of all the seats in the Legislature.
The Canadian elections (2019 and 2021) also were disproportional in that one party got more seats with fewer votes than another party.
But these elections are nuanced in that
in 86 percent of the country or so, Liberals did take majority of votes by something like 1M,
that is all the country except AB and SK
A third of Conservative votes were cast in AB and SK but for only 14 percent of seats,
and in AB and SK Conservatives got all but one seat, far more than they deserved in AB and SK.
ALSO, even under PR, Conservatives with same vote share as 2021 would not have majority government. They got just a minority of the votes and so even if due government, were not due majority government. (and without majority government they would have had to depend on support from other parties to stay in power - the Liberals, NDP and Greens were not likely to support them in power, so their stay in power would have likely been short-lasting anyway.)
(This sets the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections apart from past unfair elections in Malta where wrong-winner election meant the wrong party got majority of seats. This is now impossible there due to majority-government top-up if necessary where if only two parties in house and wrong party has more seats, top-up is added to make result fair to more-pop. party. The requirement for only two-party chamber for the top-up to kick in points to how in a two or more party chamber, a working majority could be managed if parties enough to make up a majority co-operate.)
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