Typically, but not necessarily, the party with a plurality of seats forms the government.
In Canada, most of the time political parties stand on their own, live or die, and rarely form official coalition governments to form a majority.
Canada's plurality voting system means that minority governments are relatively rare[clarification needed] in comparison with countries that have a proportional representation voting system.
Nine of Canada's 10 provinces, all but Alberta, have experienced minority governments as well, mostly produced by first-past-the-post elections.
Such was the case in Manitoba in 1941 when a wartime coalition made up of Conservatives, CCF and Social Credit was formed and (mostly) did not run candidates against each other in the election that year, winning majority government as a coalition and governing as a coalition thereafter.