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	Elections
		Canadian elections are held under a process that reflects well-understood principles and is a part of the country's political culture.
		While elections and changes in either the prime minister or the government as a whole may be related to each other, there is no necessary connection between elections and changes in the executive.
		Each general election is unique, for while the basic principles on which elections are conducted have varied remarkably little since the beginning, the personnel involved and the issues fought over are never entirely the same.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002560 (1397 words)

	Canadian Parliament - MSN Encarta
		Canadian law protects Parliament’s and the public’s right to know about the processes that lead to many decisions by the federal and provincial governments, but it does not apply to materials submitted to the Cabinet.
		Canadian citizens age 18 or older elect members of the House of Commons to represent electoral districts, known in Canada as ridings.
		Unless the government loses the support of Parliament and an early election must be called, most Parliaments last for four years before the prime minister asks the governor-general to call an election.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553359_2/Canadian_Parliament.html (1767 words)

	Canadian House of Commons at AllExperts
		The Canadian House of Commons is located in the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario.
		Canadian law states that all federal elections must be held on a Monday (except on statutory holidays), and the campaign must be at least 36 days long.
		The last non-incumbent independent to win was Gilles Duceppe in a 1990 by-election, although Duceppe was informally representing the Bloc QuÃ©bÃ©cois, which was not yet registered as a political party with Elections Canada when the by-election was held.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/canadian_house_of_commons.htm (4529 words)

	Elections are a Scam
		Elections are a scam whose function is to create the illusion that “the people” control the government, not the elite, and to neutralize resistance movements.
		In addition, elections can help neutralize resistance movements by getting disgruntled individuals to channel their efforts into the election, instead of more effective means of resistance.
		Elections are a scam whose function is to neutralize resistance movements and dupe ordinary citizens into thinking they control the state.
	www.bigeye.com /elections.htm (3327 words)

	Canadian Snowbirds and U.S. Tax
		Election of the net rental income method applies for all future years and is generally permanent.
		The election applies to all of an individuals rental real estate in the U.S. Also note that state tax (and possibly city tax) may be payable on the rental income, if the election is made on the federal return.
		For example, if a Canadian dies owning a corporation which owns appreciated U.S. real estate, Canada would impose a tax on the gain from the deemed disposition of the shares at death (unless the shares are transferred to a surviving Canadian resident spouse or a qualifying spousal trust).
	www.grasmick.com /snowbird.htm (4264 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online
		In Huntsville, Texas, Johnny Paul Penry, a mentally retarded man who raped and murdered a woman in 1979, was granted a stay of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court less than four hours before he was to be killed by lethal injection.
		Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Liberal Party firmly held on to power in national elections, and strengthened its majority in Parliament.
		Chretien, who took a big gamble by calling an early election, became the first prime minister in 50 years to take a majority of the seats in the House of Commons in three consecutive elections.
	www.sptimes.com /election2000/timeline/othernews.shtml (1956 words)

	The Ultimate John William Bosley - American History Information Guide and Reference
		A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he was first elected in the 1979 election in the riding of Don Valley West in Toronto and served as Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Joe Clark.
		The first such election took place on September 30, 1986, when Speaker Bosley tendered his resignation and presided over the election of the Honourable John Fraser as the thirty-second Speaker of the House of Commons.
		Bosley was re-elected as an MP in 1988 before being defeated in the disastrous 1993 Canadian election in which the Progressive Conservatives were reduced from 157 MPs to 2.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/John_William_Bosley (220 words)

	1980 Election and Energy Policy Articles
		Born in Spedden, he served in the Canadian armed forces, during the Second World War, served on the Vegreville town council and from 1959 - 1971 was elected to serve the Alberta Legislature as the Vegreville MLA.
		Canadian for instance, would pay at the gas pumps for the Conservative energy policy and the money would go to the foreign owned oil companies.
		With the disclosure by American press reports of the now famous Canadian caper in which the Canadian Embassy in Iran was instrumental in returning six embassy officials to the United States and the national anxiety of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mr.
	www.smokylake.com /history/politics/1980election.htm (3809 words)

	CNN.com - Chretien declared winner of Canadian election - November 27, 2000
		Heading into the election, the Liberals, or the Grits, were expected to form a slim majority government, their third consecutive since returning to power in 1993.
		The Canadian Alliance, led by former fundamentalist preacher Stockwell Day, was expected to hold onto its support in the west -- Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
		Elections officials said that prevents problems like the disputed November 7 presidential election in the United States.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/27/canada.election.04 (1161 words)

	Elections around the World
		The information contained herein is b rief in nature and gives the date and type of election, the number of registered voters, the party in power, information about whether voting is compulsory, some key issues, the main players, commentary as the elections unfold, and results when known.
		This election was the first time that parties were allowed to post representatives at all 40 000 polling stations as well as being given the vote tallies at the end of polling.
		Iraq’s transition on a knife edge, discusses meeting the 30 June election date, the role of the United Nations, the formation, composition and mandate of the provisional government, and the status of the occupying forces.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/POL/WorldElections.htm (3308 words)

	Canadian election system unlike U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unlike elections in the United States, Canadian elections can happen at almost any time, and a prime minister can serve as long as his political party is in power.
		The last election was about three and a half years ago, Beach said, and current Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has not waited four years because the new political party, the Canadian Alliance, has just elected a new leader, Stockwell Day.
		In 1979, a minority government, a government in which the House of Commons is controlled almost equally by two parties, called an election nine months after the previous election.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2000/11_2000/112620002.htm (831 words)

	Worldandnation: The Canada report
		The Canadian news media has been on alert since Thursday when the sons of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau issued a statement saying he was "not well" and receiving medical attention at his Montreal home.
		The government's generosity as a provincial election looms is the result of a growing budget surplus and is to offset the high cost of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels.
		Canadian Fisheries Minister Herb Dhaliwal said he has found no new way to end a bitter dispute over native fishing rights on the East Coast and warned that his officers would continue to enforce the law.
	www.sptimes.com /News/091000/Worldandnation/The_Canada_report_.shtml (645 words)

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		It would be a stretch to call the election of 1921 a critical election since five years later the Progressives were able to elect only 20 MPs, and by the end of the decade, their national organization was moribund.
		Other "slightly less than critical elections" and the election of 1993: Until 1993, Canadian federal elections tended to work in favor of the Liberals because of the party's ability to campaign, win, and satisfy the voters of Ontario and Quebec, in which two-thirds of the population lived.
		John Porter (1965) noted that Canadian political and economic leaders, despite their cries for national unity in the face of the persistent regionalism which characterized the Canadian political system, focused on themes that divided the electorate to maintain their positions as elites.
	www.duke.edu /~tjs/ontarioelections/OntarioElectionStudy/11-17.doc (4417 words)

	Democracy
		After all, both countries hold free elections, are respectful of human rights and uphold many civil liberties that are codified in documents such as the Bill of Rights or the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
		The checks in the Canadian system are limited to either outright revolt within the Prime Minister's party, an action that has never taken place in Canada, or refusal by the Governor General to assent to an action proposed by the Prime Minister.
		In fact, Canadian elections may be compared to US Presidential elections because, just as votes for electors decide who will be President, votes for Members of Parliament decide who will be the Prime Minister.
	www.unitednorthamerica.org /democracy.htm (4208 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles / The Uncertain Path to PR - Editorial
		The election of a minority Liberal government in the June federal election has created a historic opportunity to push democratic reform in Canada, specifically dumping our unrepresentative, uncompetitive first-past-the-post voting system for some form of proportional representation.
		While there have been minority governments before — throughout the 1960s, from 1972-74 and in 1979 — this is the first time since Mackenzie King’s farmer/labour-supported Liberal minority government of 1921 that a number of key political parties favour at least considering PR.
		While the federal Liberals continue to dismiss PR, the NDP and the Greens are solidly in favour of the change, while both the Bloc and the Canadian Alliance wing of the new Conservative party voted in Parliament a year ago for an NDP private member’s bill to hold a national referendum on the issue.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/2004/09/01/116 (1045 words)

	Joe Clark - The Last Progressive Conservative? - Canadian Culture
		When Joe Clark led the federal Progressive Conservative Party to power on June 4, 1979, he probably never dreamed that he'd be one of the party's last members in office.
		His government soon fell in a December 1979 Motion of No Confidence, and the party lost the preceding election to Pierre Trudeau's Liberal Party.
		McKay led the party into a controversial merger in December 2003 with the Canadian Alliance, a group of hard-right politicians from western Canada.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art20827.asp (388 words)

	ICPSR - 8079 - The 1974-1979-1980 Canadian National Elections and Quebec Referendum Panel Study
		This study is a continuation of the 1974 Canadian Election Study which consisted of extensive personal interviews with a national sample of 2,562 respondents following the federal election of July 8, 1974.
		After the federal election of February 18, 1980, 1,748 respondents in both the panel and cross-section samples were contacted by telephone and reinterviewed.
		The 1979 survey continued the theme of citizen interest and involvement in politics and probed into respondents' attitudes about regions, provinces, and national unity.
	dataserv.libs.uga.edu /icpsr/8079/8079.html (460 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Liberal Party's 11-year monopoly on power in jeopardy as Canadians vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		OTTAWA – Braced for a tense and muddled outcome, Canadians voted Monday in a national election likely to end the Liberal Party's 11-year monopoly on power and produce a fragile minority government that might need to bargain with separatist lawmakers from Quebec.
		At the same time, the polls suggested many Canadians were hesitant to award outright power to the Conservatives' relatively untested leader, Stephen Harper, whose stances on tax cuts and social issues prompted concerns about unwelcome change.
		The Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, sought to reassure Canadians that success at the polls Monday would not prompt the separatists to speed up their long-term plans for another referendum on possible independence for the French-speaking province.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040628-1722-canada-election.html (762 words)

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		The Council shall create an election board whose members shall be appointed by the Chief with the advice and consent of the Tribal Council.
		Recall from office shall require a supporting vote of at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the registered voters of the district or area in which the election is conducted.
		Pursuant to this Constitution, the initial election of the Chief and members of the Tribal Council shall occur at the next regular election for Chief.
	www.uwm.edu /~michael/constitutions/1979.htm (3307 words)

	Jones \| Election 2006--Canada Switches Gears
		On January 23, the Canadian electorate reversed its previous balance, according the Conservatives a minority government of 124 of 308 seats with the Liberals reduced to 104 seats.
		Consequently, the polls suggested that the Opposition's manipulation of an election was premature and that the electorate was not amused by the prospect of an election in the worst winter month (and including the holiday season).
		It was a curious election: longer at fifty-six days than the Canadian standard and broken at the three-week mark by the Christmas-New Year's holiday, it was distinctly a two-parter.
	unc.edu /depts/diplomat/item/2006/0103/jone/jonesd_canadaelection.html (3947 words)

	The debate rages on: Canada as a conservative nation - crazed monkey
		Canadians are smug responds to my post on the Canadian right’s propensity to imagine support:
		Looking back at the results of previous elections, one can see that the mood in Canada has been predominantly left-wing since 1974 (I grew weary of transcribing data from the Political Database of the Americas), save for in the 1984 election.
		Considering the media situation in Canada, it’s incredible that anyone votes conservative at all; in the last election the Alliance was demonized for justly criticizing a corrupt government.
	crazedmonkey.com /blog/politics/alternate_reality_canadian_right2.html (638 words)

	Egwald Statistics — Canadian Elections — 1997
		To this end, I collected data and calculated percentages for the 16 Canadian elections between 1949 and 1997.
		Notice that the number of elections = 16, which equals the number of observations.
		Since we are interested in the extent to which the four regions determine the winning party in a Canadian election, the number of independent variables = 4 (number of regions: E, OQ, P and BC).
	www.egwald.com /statistics/canadianelections.php3 (462 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's 2004 Federal election in Quebec column
		The last time an Alberta boy with high-school French went a-wooing ministerial talent in Quebec was 1979 when Joe Clark snagged twenty or so Ontario seats from Pierre Trudeau to cobble together a minority government.
		Heward Grafftey was a one-man Eastern Townships Tory fortress for seven elections since riding the Diefenbaker wave in 1958.
		In that election the Liberals won 67 seats in Quebec, giving Pierre Trudeau the base with which he staged his legendary comeback in 1980.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/quebecelection_2004.shtml (751 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Long-dominant Liberal Party in danger of losing majority in closely fought ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now, Martin's decision to call elections this month – a year sooner than required – is being second-guessed as voters signal a weariness with Liberal rule.
		The election marks the first nationwide test for Harper's revamped party, created last year as a fusion of the 136-year-old Progressive Conservative Party and the western-based Canadian Alliance.
		If the Liberals emerge from the election as weakened leaders of a minority government, this could further aggravate the sometimes-strained relationship with Washington, said Joel Sokolsky, a Canadian political scientist who has taught at the Royal Military College of Canada and at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040626-1000-canada-election.html (801 words)

	CNN.com - Vote topples Canadian government - Nov 28, 2005
		The election forces a campaign over the Christmas holidays that the prime minister argues most Canadians don't want.
		Martin had proposed elections in March, after the expected release of a second report on the sponsorship scandal.
		The Liberals hold 133 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons, compared with 98 for the Conservatives, 53 for the Bloc Quebecois and 18 for the New Democrats.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/americas/11/28/canada.government/index.html (756 words)

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