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"Sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Andrew Ostrander" <apanda@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> "snowman" <x@x.x> wrote in message 
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>>> Andrew Ostrander wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:09:02 -0600, "Andrew Ostrander"
>>>>>>> <apanda@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Harper wasn't elected into office.  I didn't see any choice on my 
>>>>>>>> ballot for Harper.  I voted for my local mp.
>>>>>
>>>>> And was your local MP a Liberal, an NDP or a Separatist?  Or was he 
>>>>> 1/3 of each?  Were you voting 1/3 for each one or just *one* party? 
>>>>> See, that's the problem with this little coup, it is one vote, one 
>>>>> party. That's something that Dion, Laytoon and their Separatist allies 
>>>>> fail to understand.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't really get your point.  The Canadian people collectively 
>>>> elected mps from 4 parties, and send them to Ottawa to work out a way 
>>>> to run the country.  The way they've worked out doesn't have Harper as 
>>>> PM.
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>>> I've repeated this enough but for your sake, I shall do so once more. 
>>> After the loss of a confidence vote, it is the people who decide the 
>>> government, not three individuals who make backroom deals outside of the 
>>> public scrutiny.  Why should it matter just how soon the last election 
>>> was?  This is a democracy, not a banana republic.
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>> Sorry, but what you learned about confidence votes seems to be different 
>> from what I learned about them.  I learned (years ago) that if a PM loses 
>> a confidence vote, the Governor General can appoint someone else as Prime 
>> Minister, and if that person has the support of the House of Commons, 
>> then he/she remains the new PM.  Go back and check your school books, or 
>> some other source of information.
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> yes, the GG ****CAN*****   appoint..   CAN means having the power. It does 
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> be that the GG WILL appoint...just that the GG MIGHT.

I think you're right, but I also think that in the present circumstances the 
GG should appoint Dion as coalition Prime Minister.  An election was just 
held, and I don't see any reason why another one would change much.  Those 
who voted for Conservative, Bloc, or NDP winners are not going to change 
their votes, and after seeing Harper's real mean-spiritedness, I don't think 
Liberals will either.  So the results will come out the same, and what will 
the GG do then?  Reappoint Harper only to see  him defeated in the House 
again?

Also, another election right now would mean Dion leading the Liberals again. 
I would rather wait until their new leader is chosen, and have an 
opportunity to vote then.