@human3500 Way back in history it used to be practice that a new PM was appointed immediately if the position became vacant, which is how we got two senators as prime minister after J.A. MacDonald and John Thompson died in office.
Since then convention has developed that a new PM isn't appointed until the governing party selects a new leader. The only PMs who have voluntarily left office with a deputy PM appointed have been P.E. Trudeau (who invented the position in 1977) and Jean Chrétien (Mulroney's deputy retired from politics at the same time), and in both cases their deputies did not become PM, and no new PM was appointed until after their leadership conventions.
Anyway, Deputy Prime Minister is a Cabinet position, and Freeland's resignation from Cabinet includes resigning as deputy PM, so even if it was convention for the deputy to become prime minister right away, she isn't it.
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