HeyJaredIn Defence of Westminster
Analysis and opinions on the Crown, Parliament, and executive-legislative relations in Westminster states.
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A dissolution in British Columbia would be constitutional (opens the original)
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Would it be unconstitutional for the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia to accept the Premier’s request to dissolve the legislature when the official opposition lacks a permanent leader? No.There is no convention such that the legislature can only be dissolved if the official opposition has a permanent leader and is properly placed to run a campaign (see Twomey on this very question.) Instead, what we are dealing with here would be a question of the Premier’s lack of fair play, not of the c
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