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Your not the first person that has had one of those while communicating with me, :lolp: and I did write alot and bounced around different ideas.
NQM - good job condensing that mess. WAY TO GO
but only 20% of the Canadians actually voted during this election.
***** I know Canada had a problem with voter fatigue especially in Ontario (Federal election 2004, Federal election 2006, Municipal election 2006, Provincal election 2007 and another Federal election 2008) About 59% of Eligible Canadians voted in 2008 (13,834,294) so divide by .59 to get total number of eligible voters (23,447,956). About 22% of total Eligible Canadians voted for Mr. Harper (5,206,796)Sometime between 2006 and 2008 - the following happened:
Normal time between elections - 5 years
*****In Canada, the governing party has considerable flexibility to determine the date of an election anywhere up to five years of being elected, Added bonus for winning with a Majority gov't and what a better time to call an election than shortly after the 2nd place party has a scandal breakMr Harper asks for change of the law to have an elections every 4 years instead.
***** with Fixed dates, instead of what it was
just adding some extra info back in. Hopefully confusion is all gone