If They Want Early Election - They'll Have One

The government made it clear that it's not ready to accept any ultimatums. If the opposition threatens with an early election - the Conservatives are getting their campaign buses ready. The first confidence vote on the Throne Speech is scheduled for October 18th. If the government loses - it's a big game of tic-tac-toe on November 26th.

Not many are excited with that prospective. Most of those who commented on the story don't want an early election. Some consider it a waste of taxpayers' money to hold elections that often; especially if it's unlikely to change the party standings in the Parliament. Others are simply not ready for an election or don't like the idea of having a Federal election campaign right after the Ontario election... Those who welcomed the possibility of an early election (looking forward for either a Liberal government or a Conservative majority) were greatly outnumbered.

So I don't retract my words - we'll have the campaign (or something quite similar) but there will be no election called. Here's a great comment posted by Craig:

A quick prediction:

After the throne speech, Dion is going to call a press conference and announce (in his typical mumbled stammering) that he "sees things in the throne speech that we can work on" and that because "Canadians do not want another election" he will support it.

Then he can pretend to save face and claim that he took a stand.

Exactly! Unless something extraordinary happens and the Liberal support jumps into mid-30s, the new campaign buses for the Conservative party are most likely to stay in the garage.