Sentences with phrase «to fix election dates»

Fixed elections: Rather than setting an actual fixed election date, the Government is expected to introduce legislation setting a series of fixed election months when elections would expected to be held.

As the federal Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper taught Canadians earlier this year, fixed election date laws are merely a suggestion.

Bill C - 16, an amendment to the Canada Elections Act, was intended to fix the election date for the third Monday in October 2009, to prevent politically opportune moves to call an early election.

It's also possible that Harper, himself, could pull the plug on his minority administration at some point before the next fixed election date — just as he did in September — although such a move would make an utter mockery of Harper's own, now - tarnished, fixed - election law.

When fixed election date legislation was introduced, it...

Because the 2015 provincial election was called one year earlier than Alberta's (meaningless) fixed election date calls for the timelines now present a difficult challenge for Elections Alberta.

The project's findings will lay the foundations for a better understanding of electoral responses to government opportunism, and will contribute to debates about retaining or introducing fixed election dates (which restrict strategic elections) in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In addition, proposed legislation to establish fixed election dates was tabled on November 7, 2012 (Bill 3, An Act to amend the Election Act for the purpose of establishing fixed - date elections).

Even if the Conservatives managed to get the proposal into law, it would carry no consequence for breaking it, much like the Conservative government's fixed election date law, which Harper broke by going to the polls early, in 2008, by retroactively claiming the law wasn't meant to apply to minority governments.

Like Bill Clinton without the charisma, Premier Gordon Campbell is at heart a policy wonk who will leave British Columbia a legacy of mostly non-partisan innovations: a carbon tax, fixed election dates, the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement with Alberta, the Recall and Initiative Act.

B.C. has fixed election dates every four years, with the next one slated for May.

Harper has promised to bring in fixed election dates, like those in B.C..

«This is one of the manifestations of a fixed election date.

A century after the People's Budget took on the hereditary peers, let us honour Lloyd George with a Great Reform Act, finally fully electing the Lords, alongside Commons reform, votes at 16, fixed election dates and, perhaps, full PR for local government, too.

The fixed election date has also assisted in ensuring an up to date electoral roll and in the organisation of other aspects of the election timetable.

«For all these reasons, and to prevent future prime ministers from call unfair snap elections, Democracy Watch has applied to the Federal Court for a ruling that Prime Minister Harper's calling of the federal election in September 2008 was a violation of the fixed election date law and Canadians» rights under the Charter,» said Conacher.

«For all these reasons, and to prevent future prime ministers from call unfair snap elections, Democracy Watch has applied to the Federal Court for a ruling that Prime Minister Harper's calling of the federal election in September 2008 was a violation of the fixed election date law and Canadians» rights under the Charter,»