[Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means,....

“ [Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government. ”

Lawrence Martin

From : Harperland: The Politics Of Control