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After Carney had accepted the party's nomination, I caught up with former Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, who served for a decade from 1993 and who'd taken to the stage earlier in the evening.

Prorogation is sometimes a controversial move made by prime ministers to avoid facing consequences: the Conservative Stephen Harper government used it to kill an inquiry on the treatment of Afghan detainees, and the Liberal Jean ����é�پ���� government used it to sidestep a report on the 2002 sponsorship scandal.

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"We haven't given up yet and we don't intend to," said public servant Davy Chretien, 50, quoted by AFP news agency in Marseille.

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