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For those of you who don't live in Canada (and thus are very unlikely to care about our politics) Canada is basically going through a coup at the moment.

The conservatives currently hold a minority government that holds 144 out of 308 seats. Since they have less than half (155+) they can be overthrown with a vote of non-confidence in the government. This current vote was sparked by Harper's economic plan, which the Libs, NDP and Bloc are not happy with. What usually happens (as was the case with the 2006 election that tossed Paul Martin) is the Governor General will drop the writ and call and election.

Since we just had an election in October, the Liberals (77 seats) and NDP (37 seats) are hoping the GG will offer them a chance to form a government instead of holding another election. In other words, we'd end up with an unelected government that depended on the separatist party to get into power. F*cking Weak sauce.

Should I break out the cigars and hang up a poster of Che Guevara next to my "Viva la Revolución" banner?

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