RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: Canada Conservatives Give Liberals a Month |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=841&ncid=841&e=2&u=/nm/20050411/wl_canada_nm/canada_politics_date_col
| Quote: | OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's main opposition party is unlikely to let the minority Liberal government survive more than a month, senior Conservatives said on Monday.
Suddenly energized by a new poll that shows Liberal support in a freefall because of dramatic allegations of kickbacks from a federal spending program, the Conservatives are now looking at when, not whether, to pull the plug on the government.
"There's a window of three to four weeks," one Conservative strategist, who did not wish to be identified, told Reuters.
That would suggest an attempt to bring down the government in the first week, or possibly the first two weeks, of May, though senior Conservatives said nothing had been decided.
Federal law stipulates that an election campaign must be at least 36 days long, and the vote must be held on a Monday -- or, if the Monday is a holiday, on the following Tuesday.
Conservative leader Stephen Harper has said that before triggering an election he would like to hear more testimony from the official inquiry into the government's cash-for-favors scandal, where ad executive Jean Brault told of making payments to the Liberals in return for contracts.
The commission is due to finish hearing testimony on May 6. |
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