Paul Martin's Liberal government fell today in Canada when it failed a no-confidence vote.

The short-lived 38th Parliament met its demise on Monday night, setting the stage for the longest election campaigns in two decades, as the Liberal government was defeated in a no-confidence vote at the hands of all three opposition parties and the country was launched into official election mode.

The Liberals lost the vote in the House of Commons 133 to 171, beginning a series of events that will propel voters toward the ballot boxes, likely on Jan. 23.

Prime Minister Paul Martin will officially call a federal election on Tuesday.

It appears that the new election will be held somewhere around January 23, 2006.

It strikes me that there are two vital questions to ask here, questions that the whole world wants answered.

1) What will be the outcome of the election -- a change in national leadership or a continued Liberal domination of Canadian politics?

2) Ig that funny looking round stuff is called Canadian bacon down here in the states, what do they call our long strips of bacon in Soviet Kanuckistan?

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