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Line 46: ==Qualifications and selection== In 2008, a public opinion survey showed that 51 per cent of Canadians believed they voted to directly elect the prime minister,<ref>{{citation\| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/survey-suggests-canadians-ignorant-of-government-system-1.751002\| title=Survey suggests Canadians ignorant of government system\| date=December 14, 2008\| publisher=CBC News\| accessdate=June 6, 2023}}</ref>}} the prime minister, along with the other ministers in Cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of the monarch.<ref name="GG">{{Cite web \|last=Office of the Governor General of Canada \|title=Media > Fact Sheets > The Swearing-In of a New Ministry \|url=http://www.gg.ca/media/fs-fd/P1_e.asp \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080616012920/http://www.gg.ca/media/fs-fd/P1_e.asp \|archive-date=June 16, 2008 \|access-date=May 18, 2009 \|publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada}}</ref> By the conventions of [[responsible government]], designed to maintain administrative stability, the governor general will call to form a government the individual most likely to receive the support, or confidence, of a majority of the directly elected members of the [[House of Commons of Canada\|House of Commons]];<ref>{{Citation \|last=Pothen \|first=Phil \|title=Disinformation as a Back Door to 'Constitutional Revolution' in Canada \|url=http://www.oba.org/En/ccl_en/newsletter_en/v13n1.aspx#Article_3 \|year=2009 \|place=Toronto \|publisher=Ontario Bar Association \|access-date=September 13, 2010}}</ref> as a practical matter, this is often the leader of a party whose members form a majority, or a very large plurality, of the House of Commons.<ref>{{Citation \|last=Forsey \|first=Eugene \|title=How Canadians Govern Themselves \|url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/AboutParliament/Forsey/PDFs/How_Canadians_Govern_Themselves-6ed.pdf \|pages=3–4 \|year=2005 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229155255/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/AboutParliament/Forsey/PDFs/How_Canadians_Govern_Themselves-6ed.pdf \|edition=6 \|place=Ottawa \|publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada \|isbn=0-662-39689-8 \|access-date=December 9, 2009 \|archive-date=December 29, 2009 \|author-link=Eugene Forsey \|url-status=dead}}</ref> While there is no legal requirement for prime ministers to be MPs themselves, for practical and political reasons the prime minister is expected to win a seat very promptly.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Forsey \|first=Eugene \|date=March 2012 \|title=How Canadians Govern Themselves > The Prime Minister \|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/senatoreugeneforsey/book/chapter_6-e.html#6_5 \|access-date=November 26, 2015 \|publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada}}</ref> However, in rare circumstances individuals who are not sitting members of the House of Commons have been appointed to the position of prime minister. Two former prime ministers—[[John Abbott\|John Joseph Caldwell Abbott]] and [[Mackenzie Bowell]]—served in the 1890s while members of the [[Senate of Canada\|Senate]].<ref name="Forsey38">{{Harvnb\|Forsey\|2005\|p=38}}</ref> Both, in their roles as [[Representative of the Government in the Senate\|Government Leader in the Senate]], succeeded prime ministers who had died in office—[[John A. Macdonald]] in 1891 and [[John Sparrow David Thompson]] in 1894.

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