How would the Conservatives react to the suggestion that Justin Trudeau might continue governing after the next election, with the support of the NDP, even if he failed to win the most seats?
that Justin Trudeau might continue governing after the next election, with the support of the NDP, even if he failed to win the most seats.
Thus if every expert in constitutional law asserts that a prime minister holds power on the basis of his or her ability to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons; that the prime minister before the election is therefore still the prime minister after the election,, at least until the new House has met and passed judgment, unless he chooses to resign before then – if all this commands the universal consensus of those who study the subject for a living, that is to be taken not as a sign...
So we are really only talking about five parliaments, and five elections: 1925, 1957, 1963, 1979, and 2006. If precedent means anything, it was set in the first of these: though he won 15 fewer seats than the Conservatives, Mackenzie King carried on governing, with the support of the Progressive Party, for another nine months.
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