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The Alberta Election Act allows for cabinet to ask the Lieutenant Governor to call for a plebiscite if they believe there is a significant public sentiment for it. The plebiscite would not be binding on the government.
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So first he has to convince the NDP cabinet to bring forward this plebiscite to remove Notely from office? Uh ya, good luck with that.
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“The plebiscites we are doing are very much legal. If the government refuses to run those plebiscites and then abide by the will of the majority of the citizens because Notley does not have the support of the majority of Albertans, she only has the support of the majority of the legislature. Close to 60 per cent of the population did not vote for her,
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Uhm, that's how it works. Have you been paying attention in history class? Most of our governments have around 40% of the people vote for them.
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and now she is proposing legislation that was not announced and publicized and run on to win those seats, so in my mind she is both an accidental leader of government and she is also at this point, proposing legislation that she did not publicly disclose. Without disclosure, she is an affront to democracy,” said Clark. “What we are doing with these plebiscites, is we are going to school her on democracy. She is already ignoring Westminster parliamentary tradition and democratic ideals and that cannot be allowed to stand.”
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HA! Welcome to every government ever. Somebody get my my fainting couch, a government isn't doing what they promised!
This could be humorous to watch, though I'm not sure any decent news organization would even bother covering it. So expect to read about it in the Sun, probably in an "article" by Rick Bell.