In 2008 Harper won a post-election confidence vote.  
The mis-guided GG felt that was enough to force her to listen to his advice for a temp. shut down to avoid a fairly quick follow-up confidence vote. 

In Ontario/1985 and now in BC the gov't lost the first confidence vote. 

So my question to Ms. Turnbull is: has M. Jean created a lousy precedent that will be hard to ignore in the future?

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