We'll see:
David Akin, Canwest News Service
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper doused speculation that he's gunning for a general election this spring, telling Canwest News Service in an interview that he'd rather govern than campaign.
"I have no desire to have a spring election and I don't think anybody does. I certainly don't think the public does," Mr. Harper said in the interview in his office in Langevin Block on Parliament Hill.
Mr. Harper has made those kinds of statements before, though, and yet, in the fall of 2008 went against the spirit of his own fixed election date law and asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament, saying that the opposition parties were blocking any advance of his government's agenda.
But when he was asked to assure Canadians that, so long as this spring's budget gets the support of the House of Commons, he would not force an election, Mr. Harper said neither his party nor, he believes, the opposition parties want a campaign this spring
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5 comments:
I think Harper's plan is that by vacationing parliament he ends the embarrassing inquiry into torture, his poll numbers will go up, which they usually do when parliament is not in session, and he will see his numbers further boosted by the Olympics. After that, he introduces a budget with a poison pill forcing an election.
What I think will happen is that Ignatieff now has his political legs about him and an excellent staff. LIBERAL numbers will go up each month, though only by a couple of percentage points each time. And when the budget is introduced, our polling numbers will be slightly ahead of Harper's. And then, I can't see how the Bloc and NDP can further justify to their base any support for this right wing ideological government.
So there will be an election, but it will be forced by Ignatieff and the Liberals will be out of the starting block in first place!
LIBERAL numbers will go up each month
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
But don't forget he lies all the time.
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