Although even that won't necessarily trigger an election. It looks like we may have another 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.)

--
Rob Kelk

"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life."
- Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007