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From: mnh@utcsrgv.UUCP (Mark Hume)
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Subject: Re: Canadian and American systems
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 18:05:39 EDT
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The Canadian Prime Minister doesn't have to get elected before becoming
PM. In Law, the person becoming PM doesn't ever have to be elected.
In practice (convention), a person elected party leader of the ruling party
seeks a seat in the Commons by having a member of his/her party resign
and by calling a by-election (by the way, this person is already the PM
and thus is the one to call the by-election). However, there has been at least
one PM who was a Senator, and there has been a cabinet minister who was
neither a Senator nor an MP. So it seems that the PM need not be connected
to Parliament in any way.

Just some ramblings, Mark Hume