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PrintTime for new rules on non-confidence motions and dissolution
There should be new legislation, or a change in the Letters Patent, which would effectively do away with the problem of trying to legislate a fixed election date because a majority government would have to defeat itself in order to go to the polls early.
Canada's written Constitution is supplemented by a number of non-legal political rules known as constitutional conventions. So important in the life of our political institutions are these constitutional conventions that someone who knew only the written Constitution would have no real understanding of the Westminster model of Parliamentary government that Canada inherited from Great Britain.
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Time for new rules on non-confidence motions and dissolution
There should be new legislation, or a change in the Letters Patent, which would effectively do away with the problem of trying to legislate a fixed election date because a majority government would have to defeat itself in order to go to the polls early.
Canada's written Constitution is supplemented by a number of non-legal political rules known as constitutional conventions. So important in the life of our political institutions are these constitutional conventions that someone who knew only the written Constitution would have no real understanding of the Westminster model of Parliamentary government that Canada inherited from Great Britain.
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