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Hitchhiker
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 Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:13 pm MPs topple Liberal government, trigger election |
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| CBC.ca wrote: | MPs topple Liberal government, trigger election
Last Updated Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:01:42 EST
CBC News
The opposition parties banded together Monday to defeat the Liberal minority government and set the stage for an election that is expected to culminate in a mid-January vote.
In a 171 to 133 vote, the House passed an historic no-confidence motion exactly one year and five months after Canadian voters elected the Liberals.
Prime Minister Paul Martin will now have to go see Governor General Micha�lle Jean Tuesday morning and ask her to dissolve Parliament.
As the vote was conducted, parliamentarians stood up to applaud MPs who will not be running in the next election.
* INDEPTH: Divided Parliament
The Liberal defeat marks the first time a government has fallen on a straight motion of no-confidence in Parliament.
Other minority governments have been forced into elections after losing budget votes or censure motions interpreted as loss of confidence.
Last week, Opposition Leader Stephen Harper officially tabled the motion of no-confidence which read: "That this House has lost confidence in the government."
The Liberals have 133 seats, followed by the Conservatives with 98, the Bloc Quebecois with 53 and the NDP with 18. There are four seats held by Independents.
According to a poll conducted by Environics Research for the CBC, 35 per cent of decided voters said they would vote Liberal. The Conservatives came in at 30 per cent and the NDP were picked by 20 per cent.
With a margin of error +/- 2.5%, 19 times out of 20, the poll puts the Liberals and Conservatives at a virtual dead heat.
Federal elections have to be held on a Monday and the campaigns have to be at least 36 days long. Martin is expected to call for a slightly longer campaign, setting the vote for mid-January, either the 16th or the 23rd, with an agreement among the parties to take a holiday break and stop campaigning between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3.
An eight-week campaign would be the longest the country has seen in two decades.
The last time a government fell at the hands of the opposition was Joe Clark's Conservative government in 1979.
Monday's vote means a number of bills will die on the order paper, among them an act to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and an animal cruelty bill.
Copyright �2005 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved |
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This is "breaking news" -- the vote literally happened just now. I watched it. On two different television channels. 
Also check out this article.
Well Canadians (those of you who can vote), you're going to the polls.
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| Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:52 pm |
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Yup Jan 23rd to be exact. I just seen it on the news. I really dont think there should be another election however im going to vote anyways. I still think The liberial party will get in because there still about 40% on the polls.
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Valathous
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| Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:16 pm |
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Whooo! My first federal election! I'm voting Liberal!
Harper is a madman and should be shipped out of Canada.
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Brightstar82
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| Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:58 am |
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Yup I totally agree with you. He's on the verge of being sued because of the comments he made about the liberal government. Id never ever vote for Harper.
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Hitchhiker
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| Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:21 am |
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Being too young to vote, I can only gripe and rant, but I like to think I do that well. Let's just say that I'm disappointed with Paul Martin. I liked the Liberals! Or, at least, I liked their ideology! And they have to go off and ruin the government with their poor leadership and management! Leaving responsible, liberal people like myself with an unpalatable choice to make. Do we continue to support the old, corrupt leadership? Or do we support a new, corrupt leadership.
I do not want to have the say the words "Stephen Harper" immediately after the titles "Right Honourable" or "Prime Minister". I'd rather have Jack Layton as Prime Minister, eh. But really, I say the Liberals need better leaders to . . . well, lead them. Jean didn't work out, and now Paul doesn't look too attractive anymore either.
This is why Mr. Pilot should run for politics. Most of you don't know who Mr. Pilot is. He taught my history and geography. He's funny, but more importantly, he is blatantly direct to the point of offensive sometimes. He is not afraid to say something he means, even if it may not be what a person wants to hear. He'd at least end the ceaseless rhetoric on the Hill.
If it comes down to it though, I would much rather have Paul Martin as Prime Minister than Mr. Harper. But it's not like I can actually vote or anything.
I've often thought about letting the Conservatives have a turn so that we can just call them corrupt, oust them, and give the government back to the Liberals with new leadership. I agree that Martin isn't all that hot.
But looking at the time in which we live, I'm starting to realise that such an idea may be a bit selfish. Think about Africa. Think about the starving children in our own country. Think about global warming, about First Nations, about post-secondary education, about healthcare. . . . The list goes on. There's too much going on in the world, and in our own country, to let Mr. Harper have a chance to muck it all up. Not now.
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Brightstar82
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| Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:32 am |
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I agree Harper would be a total disaster if he got in. I know what im voting come January 23 and it definatly will not be harper.
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