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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I've been hearing a lot lately from government folk that Smith will gear up to Punt the election if poll numbers keep trending poorly. She would need buy in from the less conformal party members to achieve this. AFAIK they would just have to repeal the fixed date legislation, in which case she would have up to another year to call an election as the constitution requires an election within 5 years.
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Another wrinkle and addendum to this is that the courts ruled that the prime minister was not bound by fixed election date legislation:
https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf...FdhdGNoAAAAAAE
This was in the opposite sense though; Harper dissolved parliament and called an election to avoid the coalition of Dion-Layton-Block from taking power prior to the fixed election date. But, it is possible that even if she doesn't get large party buy in to repeal the fixed election date legislation, Smith could still attempt to refuse the election.