Electing Premiers?!
Lougheed's Conservatives win a landslide victory in Alberta electionThis is great. I am pleased to see that a national newspaper would pay such attention to things Albertan and to an Alberta premier. Just one small thing, though, for the record. Peter Lougheed was never elected premier, let alone re-elected premier. We do not elect premiers of prime ministers in Canada.
National Post
March 14, 2005
March 14, 1979: Peter Lougheed led his Progressive Conservative Party to a landslide provincial election victory, winning 74 of 79 seats in the Alberta legislature. Mr. Lougheed was instrumental in the negotiations that led to the Constitution Act (1982) and was a driving force behind the amending formula that gave no province a veto but allowed dissenting provinces to opt out of amendments that would reduce their powers. He was re-elected premier in 1975, 1979 and 1982, resigning in 1985.
posted by kaqchikel at
3/14/2005 09:02:00 PM
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Here's to Peter Lougheed... arguably the best premier Alberta has or will ever see (well, maybe not ever, that sounds so pessimistic.) One question though, what do you mean by "Peter Lougheed was never elected premier, let alone re-elected premier. We do not elect premiers of prime ministers in Canada."? I though we, as citizens who are members of the parties of Alberta elect the leaders of parties and in turn we as constituents elect representatives from these parties with the knowlege that the party who wins the most seats' leader will become Premier. Essentially is this not electing the Premier?
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Anonymous, at 3/16/2005 11:38:00 AM
Hey, Beau:
You are right most of the way. What you describe is how it happens, but it is not technically electing premiers. Party members (now) vote for their leader, and the leaders may or may not become premiers, depending on many of their guys get elected.
The only people who elected Ralph were those in his Calgary riding. The only ones that voted for PM were those in Lasalle-Emard. People may cast a vote wanting Paul Martin to get into office --especially here in Calgary, but the reality is that they are not casting a ballot for him.
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kaqchikel, at 3/18/2005 08:43:00 AM
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