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  • Canada's Minority Government Survives Vote

    05/19/2005 5:34:28 PM PDT · by minus_273 · 20 replies · 518+ views
    AP via ABCnews ^ | 5/19/2005 | BETH DUFF-BROWN
    Prime Minister Paul Martin survived a razor-thin vote of confidence Thursday, allowing him to retain power and ending one of Canada's most dramatic political standoffs in decades. The House of Commons split 152-152 on the measure that served as a confidence motion and it took a vote by the parliament speaker to give the minority government its one-vote victory. "The margin of tonight's vote is very narrow indeed that is an understatement," said Martin. "We must now move forward in a spirit of cooperation. We ask the opposition to join with us in a renewed effort to make this Parliament...