The Quebec vote has lots to with it & most likely yes but, Harper's way too cagey to "call" an election which the public doesn't want and will instead select an appropriate, politically wise, hill for his government to die on at the seeming hands of the Opposition.
Accordingly, several 'election trip wires' have been set in the form of Legislation which it's highly unlikely to support with most scheduled to come before Parliament within the next 2-6 weeks.
"Canada's de facto Karl Rove" will then be able to
... snicker ... cry all the way to the ballot box with his government having been defeated over something along the lines of one of the CPC's proposed 'tough on violent crime' laws by the self-evidently bleeding-hearted & power mad Opposition Parties.
Plus if this turns out to be the exact scenario & with our relatively short - roughly 7 week - campaigns, should some especially appalling violent incident occur generating widespread public outrage part-way through ...
hello, MASSIVE majority!
Nice pic Mac, but just one question:
What the devil is the 'Rat Jerrold Nadler doing hanging out with Harper's Conservatives?!?! LOL