A True October Surprise: The Added Surprises
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I hope he makes up for Trudeau's '79 defeat being permanent. That was the saddest update in the whole series!
In all seriousness though, I doubt he'll go any further with Canada, though if he does, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
We know he isn't, thoughPoor Baladur, his facial expression is quite accurate. Could Philippe de Villiers be on his way to victory for the right in 2002?
Yep. This also is the only box that I had lying around from when I did the TL proper- I wasn't satisfied with including it into the story, so IIRC, I did the Yugoslavia one instead.
Yeah, Canada got a lot of attention in the series, so not a lot of attention is going to be paid to America's Frosted Hat in the supplemental.
Well, I already did a Yugoslav and a Soviet box in the series, so Eastern Europe has kind of been covered.
Kind of forward, don't you think? We haven't even had coffee or held hands or--
Oh wait, you meant make an infobox of the country of Israel.
Well that changes things.
Kind of similar to OTL.
I won't say any more since I'm considering making a Quebec box.
What are "former white dominions in New Zealand"?
Now I feel bad that we aren't going to see more of the UIS since you're going to be fixated on ATOS.
Yeah, this is one that I'd been planning on including in the TL itself back in the day, so it's not exactly "new" info about the end result of the election.
Prime Minister(s) of Canada
Twenty-one men have served as the Prime Minister of Canada since the country was granted self-governing status in 1867. Although the office is never referred to in either the Dominion Act of 1867 and only in passing in the Constitution Act of 1986 that formally severed the legal ties between Canada and the United Kingdom, the prime minister is the most powerful person in Canada’s government. He (and so far only men have become prime minister) is appointed by the monarch via the governor-general to head Her Majesty's Canadian Government and is responsible for advising the governor-general on the appointment of cabinet ministers, half of any Senate vacancies and members of the Supreme Court. The prime minister also advises the monarch on whether to continue the current governor-general's service (traditionally five years' time) or to appoint someone else as the viceregal representative.
The prime minister has, by custom, always been the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons and every prime minister since Sir Charles Tupper (1896) have held seats in that house. As such, all prime ministers have been members of either the Liberal Party (including the current prime minister, Thomas Mulcair) or the Progressive Conservative Party and its historical predecessors. Canada's tradition of strong party discipline has resulted in prime ministers whose party has a majority of seats in the House of Commons being able to easily pass most proposed legislation into law. However, the prime minister is also constrained by both public opinion and that of his party in pushing forward legislation, as well as the political makeup of the House of Commons when his party has a plurality (but not a majority) of seats. Additionally, the Supreme Court has the power to strike down unconstitutional legislation and the governor-general has reserve powers to dismiss the prime minister, although these have not been invoked since 1926 when they led to a constitutional crisis.
The prime minister has, by custom, always been the leader of the party with the most seats in the House of Commons and every prime minister since Sir Charles Tupper (1896) have held seats in that house. As such, all prime ministers have been members of either the Liberal Party (including the current prime minister, Thomas Mulcair) or the Progressive Conservative Party and its historical predecessors. Canada's tradition of strong party discipline has resulted in prime ministers whose party has a majority of seats in the House of Commons being able to easily pass most proposed legislation into law. However, the prime minister is also constrained by both public opinion and that of his party in pushing forward legislation, as well as the political makeup of the House of Commons when his party has a plurality (but not a majority) of seats. Additionally, the Supreme Court has the power to strike down unconstitutional legislation and the governor-general has reserve powers to dismiss the prime minister, although these have not been invoked since 1926 when they led to a constitutional crisis.
Today's infobox was too big to upload to the site directly. The other ones hopefully are all small enough to get uploaded here.
Also, this infobox was the one that arguably kick-started the project, since I was looking through the ATOS thread, saw @CanadianTory's request for a Canadian PM list and my assumption that he meant a Wikipedia-style list and decided "why not make one now that I have time?" Then, looking at the two ATOS infoboxes (this and the French one) I had just sitting in my files, I came up with the idea to have a supplemental series and the rest is history.
Also, this infobox was the one that arguably kick-started the project, since I was looking through the ATOS thread, saw @CanadianTory's request for a Canadian PM list and my assumption that he meant a Wikipedia-style list and decided "why not make one now that I have time?" Then, looking at the two ATOS infoboxes (this and the French one) I had just sitting in my files, I came up with the idea to have a supplemental series and the rest is history.
Not to be that guy, but you could have just snipped at the part where things start to change, or (what I like to do for my notes), start the list where the POD is (even if the changes take time to show up) and cover everything from then on. The size would have been only, what, a third of the whole thing? 40% at most.
But I'll stop backseat directing.
@lord caedus, I always found these politicians who died 'prematurely' ITTL to be somewhat interesting. For example it would've been eerily surreal if Huddleston had died this year on the date you had him die ITTL, the same goes for MacEachen.
The reason I included all pre-POD prime ministers is because the Australian PM box and the American presidents box I did in the original included all the pre-POD prime ministers & presidents, respectively.
ACTUAL GIF OF LORD CAEDUS PREPARING TO MAKE AN INFOBOX
I would have honestly been a bit freaked out if Huddleston had died IOTL when I had him die (or close to it) ITTL. MacEachen a little less so since he's 95 years old and I never specified a certain date.
Mostly the reasons high-ranking politicians die "prematurely" is added stress of high office (see: Humphrey & Huddleston) exacerbating health conditions that would/will (to be a bit morbid, since everyone does die eventually) kill them IOTL. Similarly, Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan, two post-POD presidents who have died IOTL live a bit longer ITTL (he dies in 2007 instead of 2004). I had Nixon in the highly stressful job of Secretary of State for a full term, so he dies "on schedule". Looking back on it, I probably should have had Bush die as well since he's pretty frail with Parkinson's now and didn't have a second term OR Ted Bundy trying to kill him IOTL.
I admit, I was hoping for some ex-Warsaw Pact countries. But it's fine.Well, I already did a Yugoslav and a Soviet box in the series, so Eastern Europe has kind of been covered.
Nice infobox.
Mulcair's weird as he's one of the few people that you could potentially have as a leader of any three of the major federal political parties.
