Please get out and vote today, folks.
Four more years of Steve Harper would be too painful to contemplate.
Four more years of Steve Harper would be too painful to contemplate.
Erection Day - It's Not Hard
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I'm sorry to have to make this correction, but if a majority Conservative government is elected, its tenure will be FIVE YEARS, not four. This is 5th Grade Social Studies, folks. The Prime Minister's term has no fixed end...he leaves office when he resigns, or dies. The term of Parliament is limited to five years before an election must be called. The "Four More Years" thing only applies in AMERICAN politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada
Fixed Date Election Act
2007.05.03 Canada An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act S.C. 2007, c. 10
General election to be held on the third Monday in October every 4 years.
First fixed-date election to be held 2015.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/provinceterritory/ProvincialFixedElections.aspx
2007.05.03 Canada An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act S.C. 2007, c. 10
General election to be held on the third Monday in October every 4 years.
First fixed-date election to be held 2015.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/provinceterritory/ProvincialFixedElections.aspx
WELL I'LL BE DAMNED...
I have always said that Harper planned to change us into an American state. I actually did not know he'd partially succeeded. This flabbergasts me! I'm appalled, actually...
But, the Prime Minister also retains the right to call an election whenever he pleases. Mr. Harper has the distinction of being the first prime minister to have over-ridden his own fixed-date law.
By the way, I am no fan of Conrad Black, but I did enjoy the last sentence of his recent opinion piece in the National post: "We really cannot have another four years of government by a sadistic Victorian schoolmaster."
OOOOOOH...it's a paddlin'! References one of my favourite movies too! (Day in the box, anyone?)Time for your punishment Ms. Smartypants.
I am no fan of Mr. Black either, but his entire opinion piece in the National Post is really worth a read. Harpoons Harper mercilessly,
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-stephen-harper-did-many-great-things-for-this-country-but-he-hung-on-to-power-a-little-too-long
