Harper, Dion turn up volume on election talk **
Posted on 19 August 2008 by Jack
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said he disagrees with the prime minister’s suggestion that Parliament is broken, but he is nevertheless considering forcing a fall federal election.
Dion’s comment on Tuesday comes on the heels of Prime Minister Stephen Harper mulling whether to seek a new mandate for his minority government — building upon speculation surrounding an imminent election.
Harper said it’s clear opposition parties don’t want to hold out until the fixed vote date of October 2009, and said he will spend the “next few weeks” contemplating whether to call an election.
He said he will determine whether his minority Tory government can have a productive fall session of Parliament, “or whether or not the government needs a new mandate.”
“We did establish a fixed date for the next election. That said, in this minority Parliament, two of the parties — the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP — have indicated for some months now that they want an election immediately,” Harper told reporters following a health-care funding announcement in Hamilton, Ont.
“(Liberal Leader Stephane) Dion has indicated that the government should be defeated, but he’s not sure when he’ll do that because he doesn’t have good enough polls. I don’t think that’s a particularly responsible position.”
Dion said Harper would be breaking his own fixed election date law if he called voters to the polls before October. But at the same time, he said his party could force a general election before then.
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August 20th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Likely they’ll take a bathroom break altogether now as they did before. Upcoming parliamentary session though they’ll probably really have to go or else they couldn’t think straight. Trouble is, there’s no difference in decision skills before or after bathroom break. Attempting humour here, because they are so pathetic that they’re funny. Mary T was the one that caught the infamous bathroom break they took like so many ducks in a row and provided the best laugh of the season.