Minutes ahead of NDP Leader Jack Layton's first public comments on the fall election threat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday vowed he would not make any backroom deals to sustain his minority government. Photograph by: Reuters, Citizen SpecialFrom The Montreal Gazette:
OTTAWA — Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton rejected the idea of making backroom deals to avoid a federal election this fall.
Layton, the last of the four political leaders in the House of Commons to respond to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's declaration Tuesday that his party would defeat the government at the first opportunity in the fall parliamentary session, challenged Harper to to be more flexible on his legislative agenda.
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My Comment: I have trouble seeing the Conservatives agreeing to the NDP demands .... and I doubt that the Bloc will be approached.
The probability of an election has just improved.
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