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Originally Posted by transplant99
Unbelievable.
I am truly re-thinking my move back now.
A leader of the Libs who garnered the lowest suppoprt in Canadian Liberal history at the federal level has pretty much just succeeded in taking away a mandate given to someone else by the Canadian electorate.
Awesome.
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I see your point here, but the mandate isn't even a majority mandate. If it were there is no issue here.
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Originally Posted by C_Rush
Question:
Dion becomes PM until May when the Liberals hold leadership convention and elect new leader (presumably Ignatieff). Now there's a new leader and PM of Canada (unelected by the general public) much like Martin taking over after Chretien retired. Does the new leader call a general election next fall to seek a mandate?
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I don't see your point here. This is the way Canadian politics works. Klein did the same thing when he came to power, as did Stelmach. Campbell did the same thing and so would who ever replaces Harper (assuming he were to hold power long enough).
Dion is really no more "unelected" than Harper. Dion is subject to the same constraints of governing as Harper is really, only he has a smaller number of seats for his own party...otherwise he is relying on the coalition to keep him there, just as Harper was/is.