For example, if the Prime Minister had come forward and said, “I wish to dissolve the House and call an election”, I do not think the Governor General should have accepted that advice, and in those circumstances I think she would have had no alternative but to call on Mr. Dion to form a government. So it is absolutely the case that if there is a Prime Minister, or a potential member, or a potential government that could be formed, the Governor General, under a system of government, should call upon the leader of that party.
Il est donc rigoureusement exact que, s'il y a un premier ministre ou un député potentiel, ou que si un autre gouvernement pourrait être formé, le gouverneur général se devrait, sous un régime gouvernemental, de demander au chef du parti en question d'exercer le pouvoir.