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If he hadn't, wouldn't the logical result have been the government failing a confidence vote forcing Parliament to be dissolved?
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Well yeah, all minority governments are defeated eventually, but maybe we wouldn't have had an election in the fall of 2008 if Harper hadn't asked the GG to dissolve Parliament despite still having the confidence of the house at the time. Maybe Harper's government survives until the next year. Maybe we don't have the whole coalition and proroguing of Parliament debacle that followed the 2008 election. Maybe a lot of things happen differently. We'll never know what might have been because Harper chose to ignore his own fixed election date law and called an election at a time when the polls favoured the governing party, the exact scenario the law was designed to prevent.