Here’s the Governor General’s option, if no party gets a clear majority in election

There is no reason at all for any intervention by the governor general. Indeed, any such intervention would be grossly improper. It is not the business of the governor general to decide who should form the government. It is the business of the newly-elected House of Commons.

This is the full text of the original typewritten document, signed by the late constitutional expert Eugene Forsey, dated Aug. 15, 1984, also written in his hand, and...

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