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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Custead)
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Subject: Re: Canadian and American systems
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Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 12:35:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  2 12:35:23 1984
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Dave Sherman writes:
  Mark Brader comments on our new Prime Minister being able to take office
  without being elected. Note a couple of things: (1) the new Prime Minister
  must be a member of Parliament before becoming Prime Minister (i.e., must
  be elected by the voters in one riding)...

Well being a member of Parliament is not the same thing as being elected
by the voters.  In particular, an appointed senator can be prime minister
(and has been in the past) without ever receiving a single vote from
ANYONE.
Yet another loophole in the Canadian system...remember recent appointments
to the senate in order to have cabinet ministers in regions where you
don't get no votes...a cabinet minister is a fairly important job...
does not require facing the electorate though.  Prime minister simply
means 'first cabinet minister', and the principle is the same.