Andrew Coyne is arguing that the Governor General could always say no to PMSH's request to dissolve Parliament.
He is of course correct, in theory. It is within the GG's rights to say no to the Prime Minister's request's to dissolve Parliament, and even ask the Leader of the Opposition to try and form government. But to do so will turn her back on decades of convention.
It has been close to a hundred years since a Governor General has declined a Prime Minister's request to dissolve the house. To suddenly do so now will surely end her tenure and indeed put the entire institution into question.
One would only have to think back a few years to when Chretien dissolved Parliament really early in his mandate to keep the opposition off guard. As an aside, the voters didn't even punish Chretin for that, that alone also puts doubt into the whole theory that voters will punish the party that caused an election.
Now personally, I still beseech PMSH to keep his promise on the fixed election dates. It was his law, he should respect it.
Go and make political hay with Stephane Dion's pitiful excuses to not talk to you until after the by-elections. I mean, how pathetic. I don't see how waiting for the by-election results will hurt Harper. The Conservative's didn't hold any of those seats anyway. If they keep the same vote count they win, if they lose some votes it is still a draw, the Government isn't supposed to do well in by-elections.
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Its not Parliament directly,its the commissions that are so partisan and only witch hunts.Also the stalling in the senate and most bills being passed are only watered down versions of what they started out to be.
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