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Originally Posted by SebC
As does granting a prorogue to a PM who is using it to delay a non-confidence vote that he would have certainly lost. My whole point was that either decision sets a bad precedent.
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Ah. Yes, I agree with you there. Sorry, I missed the bit about you mentioning both sides.
it is an interesting conundrum though. One would hope that future PMs recognize the crisis that we were currently in, and don't try to use the "precedence" argument to avoid a defeat when they don't have the support of Canadians.
I guess there are two ways of looking at today's decision: the first is that the prorogue enabled the CPC to avoid a defeat on Monday... but another way to look at it, is that it allowed the recently elected (and still publicly supported) Government to to continue with the mandate we gave it.
How today's decision looks depends a great deal on whether or not someone believes that the Coalition was in the best interests of Canadians as a whole.