Thanks for correcting me. I must've been thinking of times the gov't. did fall. In googling it, I found that during the period between the govt. falling and the election (forming the new Parliament), the Gov. General approves basically a line of credit so all govt. services continue. Not sure of the details of this, but perhaps this procedure is one the U.S. might look at in these situations. As I asked a while back, the tax dollars are there, so why not have a way to pay the federal employees when the govt. shuts down?