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    Default The Government of Canada just fell

    Election's coming....

    Really, I don't have a lot to say about it, just thought I'd mention it.

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    Elen síla lumenn' omentielvo What Exit?'s avatar
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    What led to this Rube?

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    Oh, a bunch of stuff. Technically it was a non-confidence motion based on the government being in contempt of parliament for refusing to fully disclose costs. Basically, though, as I see it, the minority government had reached the point of the parties not being willing to continue it, and it would have fallen over something else, like the budget, pretty soon.

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    With 3 wars, turmoil everywhere and the nuclear disaster in Japan, it is not even making CNN.com yet.

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    Quote Originally posted by What Exit? View post
    With 3 wars, turmoil everywhere and the nuclear disaster in Japan, it is not even making CNN.com yet.
    That's Canada. I only even mentioned it here cause I doubted if the American mellos would hear about it otherwise.

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    How long has it been since your last elections?

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    Quote Originally posted by Orual View post
    How long has it been since your last elections?
    Last one was fall of 2008 (had to look it up, somehow it seems longer to me).

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    Here's the Toronto Star article on the situation: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/p...on-called?bn=1

    Looks like it could be a win for Prime Minister Harper's conservative government.
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