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Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

Remember, the island of Montreal has more voters than all of Canada east of the island of Montreal.

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…Toronto has more three times more seats than the Island of Montréal, so what? 🤷🏻‍♂️

the leader of the party with the most seats or that which has the confidence of the house?

Technically, it depends on the Sovereign’s decision, as represented by the Governor General:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/

The Crown and the Governor General​

In Canada, executive authority is formally vested in the Crown (the Sovereign), and it is exercised in its name by the Governor General, acting on the advice of the Prime Minister and the cabinet. The Constitution reserves certain prerogatives of government for the Crown, including the powers to:

  • give royal recommendation to bills that propose to spend government revenues;
  • give royal assent to bill passed by the Senate and the House of Commons so that they become law;
  • appoint holders of many important offices (e.g., judicial and diplomatic);
  • dissolve Parliament before elections, and to open and close parliamentary sessions (at the beginning of each parliamentary session, the Governor General reads the Speech from the Throne, prepared by the Prime Minister, outlining the Government’s objectives for the upcoming session); and
  • choose the Prime Minister (by convention, the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons following a general election).
The Governor General is appointed by the Sovereign on the recommendation of the Prime Minister for a tenure of usually five years which may be extended at the discretion of the Sovereign. As the Sovereign’s representative, the Governor General is the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces, performs several ceremonial functions, and represents Canada in state visits and in other international events.
 

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