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There’s an old saying about byelections that goes something like this: “Byelections are fire on ice”. I always thought it was an old Winston Churchill line but years of searching for proof, I have failed to deliver any hard evidence of that. You can take “fire on ice” to mean any number of things, but many feel that it suggests that byelections can produce interesting fiery results, but ice stops the fire from spreading. In other words, don’t assume they mean anything in the long run. Well, yes, and no. Remember Deborah Grey? She won a byelection in 1989 in Beaver River, Alberta becoming the first sitting member for the Reform Party, which eventually led to many more Reform seats and the disintegration of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Some fire.
Some ice.
Okay. I know. Too cute.
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