Monday will be Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s turn to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ahead of what is widely expected to be a looming election call.

Dion had indicated he was too busy to meet with Harper before Sept. 9. After several attempts to set up a meeting, the prime minister suggested an election call could come with or without a Dion meeting.

The two are now slated to meet Monday at 4 p.m. at the prime minister’s residence.

Harper’s aides have suggested the prime minister is likely to call an election to be held on Oct. 14, with a launch date of Sept. 5 or 6. A centrepiece of Tory democratic reform initiatives in the last election was a law fixing election dates to be held every four years, with the first scheduled for October 2009. Harper has argued that the law only really applies in a majority-government situation.

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