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Professor Denis Smith has an outstanding opinion piece in today’s Globe about the essential fraud at the heart of Harper’s “fixed election date” bill. As Smith points out, since the first clause of the bill says “Nothing in this section affects the powers of the Governor-General, including the power to dissolve Parliament at the Governor-General’s discretion,”  the prime minister’s power to choose an election date short of the new four-year limit is unchanged.