Although even that won't necessarily trigger an election. It http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/28/fed-govt.html]looks like we may have another http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/d ... ngbing.htm]King-Byng event. (For those south of the 49th parallel, that's a turnover of power to another party without going to the polls. This requires a minority government being brought down by a non-confidence vote and a coalition of at least two parties in the House of Commons to take its place, because the party coming into power has to show it can muster a majority of votes in the House. It's only been done that once in Canada if I recall correctly.)
This would suit me just fine. We just had an election, and it had the lowest turnout for a federal election in my memory. I doubt we'd get anybody other than party partisans out to vote if there was another poll so soon, and I suspect that would pretty much guarantee a Conservative majority...
(Oh, and I was right. I did hear one relatively-long rant about all this in the elevator today.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
This would suit me just fine. We just had an election, and it had the lowest turnout for a federal election in my memory. I doubt we'd get anybody other than party partisans out to vote if there was another poll so soon, and I suspect that would pretty much guarantee a Conservative majority...
(Oh, and I was right. I did hear one relatively-long rant about all this in the elevator today.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012