Canada's Government Falls

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:47 pm

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been ordered dissolved by motion of Parliament on the grounds of Contempt of Parliament, the first time this has happened in the history of Canada.

The dissolution technically does not occur until after Mr. Harper goes to see the Governor General.

The dissolution occurs because the government lost a vote of confidence in the Canadian legislature 156-145. Mr. Harper will have to call for new elections.

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:00 pm

Take off, eh??

MC Frontalot · Post by **MC Frontalot** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:06 pm

Let me get this straight: Provinces, not states?
Who's your president? See, that's what I meant.
Post a border guard, prepare to bombard.
Countrymen, I say to ya: Beware Canadia!!

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:48 pm

MC Frontalot wrote:Let me get this straight: Provinces, not states? Who's your president?

Typically the subdivisions of a country are prefects or provinces. A "State" historically was a country or it's government, not a subdivision of a country. If you look at any treaty, like the Geneva Conventions or the Convention Against Torture, the coutries that accede to the treaty are "States Parties" and countries in general are "States."

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:07 am

Thanks for dropping by, MC Frontalot. (That was not the real MC Frontalot.)

I've met him a couple times! I meet so few famous people I am going to namedrop their names as much as humanly possible. He is preposterously nice. He could be a lot less nice and people would still say he was a good guy, I mean.