Thread: Gordo is gone!
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Old Posted Feb 27, 2011, 6:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Jack Doe View Post
Can that be done? BC has a fixed election day.

The 40th British Columbia general election, barring the possibility of a motion of no confidence, war, or an early dissolution of parliament, will occur on May 14, 2013 [from Wikipedia].

I don't see how she can engineer the defeat of her own government unless the NDP agrees and they won't do that if they're behind in the polls.
It was easy enough for Stephen Harper to break his own fixed election date law. IMHO that piece of legislative rubbish can exit with Gordo, its not part of the Westminster tradition.
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