The Liberals want an election
The Liberals want an election, but will they? Doubt flat while the NDP is suggesting he is ready to work with the government on an ad hoc basis. And the first test could occur earlier than expected..
While Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has dropped the gloves yesterday, his two counterparts of the opposition lay low. The Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, react only after this afternoon at the prospect of an election this fall, while NDP Leader Jack Layton prefers to let his Quebec lieutenant go to the front. And offer a helping hand.
Another deputy, however, held opposite the speech. We always vote against the government on confidence motion, said Joe Comartin.
Last week was just his head indicated his support of a government training was virtually unthinkable. The NDP is the party least likely to support the Conservatives, Layton said the release of his meeting with the Prime Minister. He said he never left no meeting optimistic because it represents a change in the orientation of this government, and I have not felt that this would happen.
Since this press conference, the flagship of the New Democrats, the former Manitoba Premier Gary Doer has been appointed by Stephen Harper Canadas ambassador in Washington.
A source conservative it is a good chance as the first confidence vote in the House of Commons occur in two weeks, either the opening of Parliament in the form of a Voting on the budget said Ways and Means. If this is the case, then the election could occur as early as Oct. 26, rather than the dates of 9 or 16 November often described.
Last fall, when Stephane Dion Liberals had forged a coalition with the NDP supported by the Bloc, Harper had his shirt torn in condemning the pact with socialists and separatists. Until recently, the Conservatives have raised the specter of a coalition Liberal-NDP if Mr. Ignatieff never won a minority mandate.
Calgary where he was, the prime minister repeated what he said for weeks already, namely that Canadas election distract the fight against recession.
War images If election there must be, while also indicates that the Conservatives will continue their past strategy, is to depict the Liberal leader as a leader who does that visit Canada. According to information published in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday, the Conservatives intend to criticize Michael Ignatieff because he had a villa a The Martins, in Provence.
The entourage of Mr. Ignatieff said he is instead a home modest With its three bedrooms and two bathrooms, and that the sharing with his brother Andrew. They have inherited from their father, who had bought in the 1960s. What began as a rustic refuge has become, over the additions and thanks to soaring real estate, a residence may be worth more than a million dollars.
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