Canada's leader outfoxes opposition, averts confidence vote

Boston Globe by Ian Austen | Dec. 5, 2008 (News Report)

OTTAWA - Canada's parliamentary opposition reacted with outrage yesterday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down the legislature until Jan. 26, seeking to forestall a no-confidence vote that he was sure to lose and, possibly, provoking a constitutional crisis. Full Story »

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by Naomi Isler - Dec. 5, 2008

I don't know if it's what we'd call 'quality' - but it points out a major issue happening just to our North in a place where we thought stability was a given. And we know so little about the place - how many of us could name the prime minister?

Whoa Canada??? This only supposed to happen in dictatorships miles away! I think the last time this was tried in a major English speaking country (pardonnez moi, Quebec) was a few centuries back by a guy named Charles.

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