Uh, no. STEPHEN HARPER said "please to be doing this now", and Michaelle Jean has, twice, said that it's not the place of the Governor General to interfere in the functioning of government.
In the same way that Royal Assent to a bill is a rubber stamp, the calling of elections *and* the proroguing of parliament are rubber stamp events, and Jean has been refusing to *break* the tradition of the GG agreeing with whatever the Government asks her to use her "official but meaningless" powers for.
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In the same way that Royal Assent to a bill is a rubber stamp, the calling of elections *and* the proroguing of parliament are rubber stamp events, and Jean has been refusing to *break* the tradition of the GG agreeing with whatever the Government asks her to use her "official but meaningless" powers for.