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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Yes, most, if not all, of the constitutional expert lawyers that I read opinions from agreed that the Governor General could not allow the coalition to take power and that the GG must either grant the prorogation or dissolve parliament completely.
Which is exactly the point.
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The Governor General could have allowed the coalition to take power assuming that the government (Harper) had lost confidence of the house. It would have been very controversial, but it has happened once before in a very similar situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Byng_Affair
By Tradition, when a government loses confidence they ask the governor general to dissolve parliament, but there is nothing but convention to prevent them to ask another party to attempt to form a consensus.
As with most of our governing features, it is all tied to very vague rules, convention and precedent.