Early Canadian Elections
The BBC reports Canada primed for snap election
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be preparing to call an early general election, reports suggest.
Parliament is due to reconvene after its summer break on 15 September, but correspondents believe Mr Harper will call for an election on Sunday.
His Conservative Party was elected in 2006, but does not have an overall majority and has clashed with the opposition on a number of key issues.
It is thought an election could be pencilled in for 14 October.
There has not yet been any official confirmation of the reports.
But the CBC is reporting the same thing, PM expected to launch election campaign Sunday, with the same October 14 date.
Harper is trying to push an agenda with only 36% of the seats in Parliament, and it isn’t working, so he is gambling on picking up some extra seats. He’s only been in power since 2006, so he really hasn’t had time to annoy a whole lot of people and hasn’t made any major mistakes, so he may be correct.
