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While Nova Scotia just wrapped up its latest election with a nice, clean majority government, things aren’t so clear cut in B.C.

The May 9 election left a Liberal minority, a tenuous coalition of Greens and NDP vowing to take power — and a potentially lame duck premier who still has plenty of options on how to outfox them.

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The National Post called up Philippe Lagassé, an Ottawa-based expert in the Westminster system and one of the few constitutional scholars still willing to tolerate our speculative questions. Below, a summary of just how crazy it could get in beautiful British Columbia.

Christy Clark could just refuse to resign until B.C. runs out of money

Under current circumstances, as soon as the B.C. legislature convenes, Christy Clark will lose her job as premier. That’s why Clark could just refuse to convene the legislature and keep doing premier things as if an election had never happened. There’s nothing in the rules to technically stop her from doing this — and the action isn’t entirely unprecedented. After winning a minority government in the 1979 federal election, Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark (no relation) waited an incredible 140 days before convening Parliament.