Interesting.  The Premier is quite willing to advise the lieutenant governor that Mister Horgan has no chance of controlling the legislature and therefore should not be given the opportunity to be Premier. However, when asked by the lieutenant governor to form a government herself, when there was no chance that she could control the legislature, she was quite willing to accept the lieutenant governor's call. A bit of a double standard? How the house organizes itself is up to itself. It is not the job of the Crown to determine whether or not someone can control the house when the situation is unclear. That is the job of the house itself. Only when it becomes obvious that no one can control the house does the crown accept the advice that an election should be called. All of this is just chaff being produced by the Premier so that she can stay in office.

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