Can-Challenge: St-Laurent wins in '57

Let's say he wins a slim majority of, say, 145 seats (+20). Then what? The reason for a snap election was that he was 75 and there would not be enough time to regroup for 1958. But we might get a Prime Minister Pearson earlier :) and maintain good relations with the Americans, rather than making the Kennedy Admin the pinata, as Dief did in '63. In 1958 Duplessis ordered full mobilization, and the Tories won all of ROQ, 50 of 75 seats, in Quebec.
 
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