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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=30147" target="_blank">Harper ready to ask GG to pull plug</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/1-political" target="_blank">Political</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-02-11 16:52:52
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[hurley_108]

This is wrong on so many levels. The government serves with the confidence of the HOUSE not the SENATE. Also, this would be a clear end run around their own fixed election dates law.

[sasquatch2]

$1:

Errol Mendes, a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Ottawa.

An attempt to force an election would also violate the constitutional principle of Senate independence, noted Mendes. The Commons has no authority to compel the Senate to pass legislation, he said.

Obviously a LIBRANO hack. I clearly recall from school, a similar impasse in the 30's where an intransigent senate, under the control of a guy called Lansdowne, ammended a bill so outrageously (Lansdowne laundry) that the Commons changed procedure to push it through. If I recall the method is for the returned Bill to be passed three times by the Commons and it bypasses the Senate, and goes for regal assent.

[Scape]

It's a given the writ will be dropped this spring anyway. Why quibble over somantics? If not this then the budget or A-stan.

[kenmore]

thats right pull the plug... hope the asshole goes down the drain...

[ziggy]

kenmore kenmore:

thats right pull the plug... hope the asshole goes down the drain...

Then you would be lonely and have to change your name to Maytag.

[kenmore]

too funny.. ziggy...

[kenmore]

but then I guess its lonely at the top

[ziggy]

kenmore kenmore:

too funny.. ziggy...

Your funny too,you remind me of cagerattler but in a smaller version...or Maggiemygosh or allways for Iggy.

[westmanguy]

be interesting to see what happens.

What would Michelle Jean do?

[hwacker]

ziggy ziggy:

kenmore kenmore:

too funny.. ziggy...

Your funny too,you remind me of cagerattler but in a smaller version...or Maggiemygosh or allways for Iggy.

sounds like Avro's brother.

[kenmore]

well hello..she will disolve parliament......election time .. bring it on..

[ziggy]

hwacker hwacker:

ziggy ziggy:

kenmore kenmore:

too funny.. ziggy...

Your funny too,you remind me of cagerattler but in a smaller version...or Maggiemygosh or allways for Iggy.

sounds like Avro's brother.

At any rate libs like him are good for the conservative party.

[WBenson]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

If I recall the method is for the returned Bill to be passed three times by the Commons and it bypasses the Senate, and goes for regal assent.

That isn't the case at all. That's the case in UK with regards to the Lords, however. Constitutional amendments can bypass the Senate, but a bill must be approved by both houses.

I think it would be very ironic for Harper to violate his own law.* Confidence is the Commons' to give or take, not the Senate's.

*Edit, actually, it probably wouldn't. IIRC it was written so it ended up being a mere suggestion.

[kenmore]

it will be interesting... thankfully the decision will be made in the east.. ontario,quebec and the maritimes and harper has pissed them all off.. so pay backs a bitch