The first source most certainly does say that; don't accuse me of lying. The second source states, "the commonly held (or lazily phrased) notion that voters elect the prime minister". You're at 3 reverts in 24 hours now
While most Canadians believe they vote to directly elect the prime minister,{{refn|<ref>{{citation| url=https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/22.1-Full-Issue.pdf| editor-last1=Lagassé| editor-first1=Philippe| editor-last2=MacDonald| editor-first2=Nicholas A.| title=The Crown in the 21st Century| last=Cyr| first1=Hugo| series=On the Formation of Government| page=105| volume=22| issue=1| year=2017| publisher=Centre for Constitutional Studies| location=Edmonton| accessdate=June 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{citation| url=https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2016/who-canadians-actually-elect/| last=Macfarlane| first=Emmett| title=Who Canadians Actually Elect| date=September 16, 2016| journal=Policy Options| publisher=Institute for Research on Public Policy| accessdate=June 6, 2023}}</ref><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.
