Andrew Coyne: Tories say Carney majority is illegitimate. Their reasoning speaks to a larger issue

Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: But it’s the broader philosophy behind the Tory attacks, in this as in other matters, that is concerning: the idea that everything is settled by a vote of the people, and nothing can be settled without it; that MPs have no more independence from the voting public than they have from their party leaders; that the settled consensus of constitutional scholars can be ignored if a large enough number of people with a small enough understanding of how our system works can be riled up enough. This is populism in its most primitive form…