[Democratshavenobrains]

How can a Prime Minister MAKE legislators vote the way he wants? Are Canadianian MPs that spineless? We can't even make senile Democrat Senators call a vote for a Federal Judge unless they are members of the ACLU.

[goldstategop]

There are no free votes in Canada, unless both the Government and the Opposition agree to hold one. In the usual case, MPs vote straight party line and if the Government stakes the confidence in the Government on a bill, ruling party MPs have to vote to approve it or risk seeing the Government voted out of office. That is why the Prime Minister in Canada is more than simply primus inter pares, first among equals. He is the most powerful official in the country and what he says goes as Government policy, even if every one of the other Ministers might be opposed.