Unintended consequences of a fixed election date: year-long campaign
This will be a campaign like none that has preceded it. It has no rules. The Canada Elections Act does not apply.
Since Bill C-16, an Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act received royal assent on May 3, 2007, the fixed federal election date, which it proscribed, has not been observed. In 2008, the Prime Minister determined that the House was dysfunctional and only an election would cure ...
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