because we are not canadians, that’s why
Via BBC News:
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Canada’s government is thrown out
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government has been ousted in a no-confidence vote.
Canada’s three opposition parties united against his Liberal Party, which has been mired in a corruption scandal.
Mr Martin will seek the dissolution of parliament on Tuesday, and a date for a general election – thought likely to be 16 or 23 January.
Recent polls suggest Mr Martin’s Liberals will take most votes in the election – but will not win a majority.
In parliament on Monday evening the opposition voted by 171-133 to bring down Mr Martin’s government.
“This has been an historic evening,” said opposition Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
“This is not just the end of a tired directionless scandal-plagued government. It’s the start of a bright new future for this great country.”
Mr Martin insisted his party would win the election.
He said he would visit Governor General Michaelle Jean on Tuesday to ask her to dissolve parliament, after which the election date would be announced.
Lost support
His government has only been in power for 17 months, but has failed to shake off a scandal dating from a previous Liberal administration.
In the late 1990s C$100m ($85m; £50m) of public money was paid by the Liberal government to advertising agencies, for little or no work in return.
It has been alleged that Liberal officials demanded kickbacks for awarding the contracts.
Mr Martin is not implicated in the scandal, but the opposition says he has lost all moral authority.
The prime minister fought off a no-confidence motion in May by a single vote, but lost the support of the New Democrat party earlier this month following a row over private health care spending.
The New Democrats joined the Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois in bringing the latest motion after Mr Martin rejected their ultimatum for an early election in February.
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*thinks thinks thinks*
Ho ho ho Suanie, one day you are so gonna get into trouble.
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hahahha…I was about to point out the irony, then I noticed your title.
Yahloh.
haha.. same here Lainie.
But then again, we don’t want a society that throws a government away easily, like Indonesia and Philipines, do we?
Forget about throwing them out, let’s recycle them and use all politicians for land fill!
spiller: depends who the replacements are.
What the heck, like that also scared of getting into trouble ?
*sigh*
Malaysia is hopeless, so are it’s citizens.
The sad thing about this is that the Canadian sheeple will probably re-elect the bozos. We have two primary opposition parties that don’t have enough support to topple the scandalous Liberals. There are the Conservatives (a lot of the voting public think they’re too George Bush-ish), and the New Democrats that are full of loony leftists. It really doesn’t matter who’s in control. We Canadians are screwed no matter the result.
Lainie: hehehehe saja
spiller: no we don’t. two sides of the coin, really.
Dab: and beer shall rule the world
Oysterman: you are starting to not amuse me
Kevin: Probably. Same case here in Malaysia, only that something remotely like this (talk of a change of government) is not going to happen for a v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. v. long time.
but … but … I am allergic to beer! Waaaah!
Can’t we all just get along?
Lainie: Totally agree.
Philippines
Ramos -> Estrada = Bad
Estrada -> Arroyo = Good
Indonesia
Habibie -> Wahid = Bad
Wahid -> Megawati = Good