The Liberal minority gov't has lost a non-confidence vote introduced by the opposition Conservatives by a vote of 171 to 133. The official election campaign will start tomorrow morning as soon as the prime minister visits the governor-general to formally request the dissolution of the House of Commons and announce the date of the coming election.
By law, the election date can be no earlier than 36 days from dissolution but otherwise at the discretion of the prime minister. January 16 or 23 are the probable dates; I'm betting on Jan. 23.
I'm a big politics junky... I absorb electoral, procedural and parliamentary trivia & statistics like others absorb sports stats. This is my version of the World Series. The only way it could be better is to actually be in Canada at the moment, immersing myself in the middle of it all. *sigh*
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rxdoc's LJ entry and couldn't resist.
