Canadian Unity Government (Napoleon's World)

The Canadian Unity Government (French: Gouvernment Unité du Canada) was a unity Cabinet formed by Prime Minister Pauline Marois of all three major Canadian political parties following independence in December of 2013, meant to see Canada thru the initial tumult of their becoming a new republic. The Government was governed by the terms of the Canadian National Charter of 1982, which was incorporated on January 14th as the republic's constitution, and smoothly continued its government under the 2008 Colonial Reform Act. It consisted of the majority, governing Parti Canadien (PC), the main opposition Canada Uni (CU), and third party Accion Democratique du Canada, or ADC. Minor parties such as Alternative for Canada (AC) and Canada Solidarie (CS), Option Nationale (ON), and Green Party (PV) declined to join.

Governor-then-President Gilles Duceppe secured an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada that the government was still operating continuously as a successor to the National Assembly under the Home-Rule Act and Colonial Reform Act, and thus was nearing the end of its four-year parliamentary mandate. Marois called for elections on April 7, 2014 in which the Parti Canadien lost its majority for the first time in a quarter century, but was still the largest party in the National Assembly. Marois invited the ADC and CU into coalition again, and this time CS and PV joined. Option Nationale would later merge with CS and thus its small caucused joined as well.

With nearly all of the National Assembly as part of the government managing the implementation of independence, infighting wreaked havoc on the Canadian government. Student protests and power shortages further shook the government, nearly triggering another election. In late 2015, Marois resigned under heavy pressure and the infighting between PC leaders eventually led to a confidence-and-supply Premiership under CU leader Phillippe Couillard. Trouble continued during the hot summer of 2016 and the government collapsed, leading to inconclusive snap elections as many of the CU's supporters left to join the New Liberals and Alternative for Canada, which rebranded itself as Democratic Union under new leader Gaspard Laurent, only 35. The Parti Canadien hemorrhaged support to Canada Solidarie and the PV, and ADC picked up support from right-wing PC and CU members. Once again, no party came close to a majority, and in the wake of the election the remnant PC split into The Centrists and the Party of Social Democracy, which in turn picked up some soft Canada Solidaire supporters.

Former Bloc Canadien leader Louis Plamondon, who had served as Ambassador to the United States for the Marois and Couillard governments, was selected as an elder statesman choice by the sclerotic National Assembly to serve as its Prime Minister. Plamondon put in place a technocratic Cabinet roughly split between men and women as well as retired politicians and people from academia and business. He proposed himself as a caretaker Ministry, and pledged to call elections again within eighteen months as the people of Canada "deserve a government elected by them and for them." Plamondon's Cabinet nearly fell in early 2017 after the PSD, CS and PV balked at its budget, and further new Parliamentary groupings emerged such as the Party of Regions and the National Party, led by media mogul Pierre-Karl Peladeau. After several ministers resigned from Plamondon's Cabinet in late August of 2017, he called elections for October and tendered his resignation to President Duceppe. In the elections, the UniDem-led Canadian Alliance grouping won a landslide victory after coming from behind in the polls, with the PSD having been initially favored and underperforming after Martine Ouellet's leadership. The Canadian Unity Government, which had seen two elections and three Prime Ministers, was officially declared over with the majority government of Gaspard Laurent formed on November 6th.