Great article by a Constitutional Prof at the University of Ottawa. He highlights the hypocrisy of those Conservatives that are currently complaining about an election.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ha...515/story.html
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The prime minister claimed last year that he was legally able to break his own fixed elections law, thereby making a mockery of his former strongly held beliefs.
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Last year, I suggested that the fundamental principles of the rule of law on which this country's constitutional order is based would be undermined if the prime minister could violate with impunity the letter and sprit of the fixed elections law which his own government had passed.
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At the time, the prime minister justified his actions by claiming that Parliament had become dysfunctional. This reason seemed to fly in the face of the fact that the Conservatives had managed to pass most of the laws on their agenda and the governing party itself was the principal actor in disrupting parliamentary committees.
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