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Originally Posted by Robbob
With all this talk about proroguing and that MacDonald did it under similar circumstances, I find it very interesting that it wasn't reported in the massive coverage prior to the GG decision as a precedant. Everything I heard was that we were blazing a new trail in Canadian politics going somewhere where this country has never been.
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Yeah, I'm surprised by that too. Although the difference is that McDonald's government lasted for more than a year before the proroguing and had successfully passed confidence votes before. Requesting a proroguing this early is unprecedented. Just about every part of this story, taken alone, has some sort of precedent, but put it all together - the coalition, the signed statements, the proroguing - and it really is unique.