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"Andrew Ostrander" <apanda@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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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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>>>> Andrew Ostrander wrote:
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>>>>> "snowman" <x@x.x> wrote in message 
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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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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 NOT
>> be that the GG WILL appoint...just that the GG MIGHT.
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> 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?
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> 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.

74% of the voters indicated that they did NOT want the LIEbrawls in power. 
Period.


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