Peter Milliken's landmark ruling is not the kind of decision that a governing party hovering at 30 per cent in voting intentions should want to take into a snap election, especially on the heels of losing a significant chunk of support for closing down Parliament for most of the winter.

For the decision issued Tuesday by the veteran speaker of the House of Commons largely reads like a condemnation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's take-no-prisoners approach to the minority Parliament.

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