<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Hippolyte_Lafontaine" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine">Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baldwin" id="mwdA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Baldwin">Robert Baldwin</a> become the first Prime Ministers of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Canada" id="mwdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a> to be democratically elected under a system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government" id="mwdg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Responsible government">responsible government</a>.<sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_11#cite_note-12" id="mwdw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mweA">[12]</span></a></sup>
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