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January 2020

Rev. David A. Spence

Brentwood Bay, BC.

Electing a Prime Minister

Re: Religion and politics, p. 10, Sept. 2019

Thank you for John Milloy’s comments. However, I would quibble with his suggestion that “we are about to elect the next prime minister of Canada.”

Only the members of a particular party, who elect a leader for their party, are favoured with choosing a possible (next) Prime Minister of Canada. I am left with simply electing one individual from my riding, and together, with some 200 other ridings from coast to coast and coast to border, accumulated, elect a party to govern Canada. Then, from those elected individuals, the leader of the party becomes the (next) PM

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