May 13, 2005

World

O Canada!

Canada, 2005:

A senior government official said the prime minister won't be taking any direction from Clarkson.

"The Governor General receives advice from her first minister. She doesn't tender it," the official said.

Australia, 1975:
On 17 October Whitlam told an interviewer that the Governor-General could not intervene in the crisis because he must always act on the advice of his Prime Minister.
And we all know how that one turned out.*

First time as tragedy, second time as farce.

* For my overseas readers, Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government on November 11, 1975.

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