The position of "deputy prime minister" has no constitutional standing. If a sitting PM died in office, the governor general would have to decide what to do. She might indeed ask the deputy PM to serve on an interim basis. But that is by no means certain.
There is no precedent in Canada. There must be one in Britain. Any constitutional experts out there who can shed some light.
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There actually is a precedant. One of Canada's PMs died in office while
eating soup. It happened a while ago though.
The procedure was exactly as it happened in H20
The power goes very temporarily to the deputy prime minister and a leadership convention is called as soon as possible. As opposed to the American vice pres becomes pres. That was accurate.
My question is why not use the RCMP name when you use their uniforms... very weird, I know you have to pay a rights fee to use the name but its CBC drop a few bucks on the bloody name.
Unfortunately the CBC cannot use the name and the likness of the RCMP in the same movie just as any company cannot without prior concent of and payment to the holder of the marketing rights of the RCMP which is...Walt Disney Corp.
A bit of a shock isn't it that the Canadian National Police force images and name are copywritten to an American company, which btw has been the subject of a corporate take over by one of the larger American Cable TV distributers, which posts unofficially 60% of their profits come from the direct to home distribution of Adult hardcore films....
I know that is off on a bit of a tangent from where this thread started but just a little FYI
Just saw the serie (in french) and when Leah ask a bunch a people to search for Holtz, it is said to be in the GRC (french for RCMP) offices.
shareI'm pretty sure that recently the marketing rights of the RCMP switched from the Walt Disney Corporation to the Mounted Police Foundation. I'm not sure what sort of deal between the Foundation and the CBC would have needed to be done, but your point is moot. And by marketing rights, it covers both name and the distinctive uniform and image of the Force. Perhaps the writers wished to keep this a complete work of fiction? (further thought by someone else here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410055/board/thread/12904593?d=22421247#22421247 )
Regardless, the Walt Disney deal was very good for the Force, as it allowed the money and resources of Disney to protect the image of the Mountie in a variety of areas (for example, the WWF wrestler who dressed like a Mountie and tasered people was quickly done away with). Meanwhile, the RCMP could go about what they do best and not waste government resources trying to protect their image.
Years ago in australia when i was a lot younger the then Prime Minister Menzies indeed did drown. Body was never found. No great controversy erupted as i can remember. A few people wondered if something strange had happened but basically most people just thought he drowned. It happens there. Lots of beaches. As far as I can remember they just had an election. I guess someone looked after things until this process was over.
shareSorry mate, but it wasn't Prime Minister Menzies who drowned, it was Harold Holt, December 1967, all that happened was that the Deputy PM took over for a few days/weeks, I think it was "BlackJack" McEwan, from memory, until the Liberal party elected a new leader, John Gorton, in early 1968. I know Oz was pretty isolated in those days, we still are even now, but you would have thought the rest of the world would have heard about a Prime Minister drowning/disappearing. As to some of the earlier posts, Canada seems like a likely place to set a story on political intrigue, with the Quebec situation and all, I thought it was very believable, except for the bogus "Canadian Federal Police" crap, it would be just like the yanks to come in and take over a country they saw as destabilising 'their' region. The one thing I didn't get was, what did McLaughlin the younger hope to gain from his machinations, he didn't seem to be doing it for money, and he didn't seem likely to gain power, in fact the only possible outcome was the destruction of his own country.
shareYes, of course, the Americans are 'eeeevil', whatever. In any event, no, the Deputy Prime Minister, in Canada anyhow, would not take power, even temporarily, if the sitting Prime Minister were to suddenly die. The Governor General would tend to allow the caucus with party with the plurality of seats (currently the Conservative Party under Prime Minister Stephen Harper) to choose an interim leader who would then be the interim Prime Minster until a leader convention could take place, or the GG could choose the leader of one of the other parties in the house in a coalition government. The Deputy PM in Canada is at best a position of show, and doesn't follow any chain of command; in fact, Harper left the Deputy PM spot vacant in his current government and has no plans to fill it in the foreseeable future.
shareMcLaughlin junior stated his intentions in the 1999 speech to the think tank. He believed that capitalism has created more global well-being than any other system. Nationalism has only caused grief, like what happened in Kosovo. He believed that by tearing down national boundaries, wealth and peace would flow.
He did not believe the US would invade, but would keep their end of the bargain, which is an automous region of Canada within the United States, and not the annexation of Canada by the US.
On the wealth side, he negotiated the water deal worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Also he negotiated the exchange of Canadian dollar for US dollar at par, so when the created economic chaos, and the Canadian dollar was plunging, he got the US to buy it at par. Unfortunately, with the invasion, this invalidated the agreeement.