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Originally Posted by midlifebear  1) Why can't Stephen Harper buy a suit that fits? and 2) Why hasn't he and his coalition been voted out of office by now? |
1) Ol' Steve has lost 40 pounds and looks pretty sharp these days.
2) He hasn't lost a vote in Parliament that would precipitate an election. The Liberals don't really want an election ... Stephane Dion is a bright nice policy wonk who has no chops as a leader at all, so they're afraid to appear before the electorate with him at the helm.
Harper is ahead in the polls, but not enough to ensure that the next election brings him a majority.
Harper, you may know, brought in fixed election dates that will require another election four years to the day after the last one.
That means we can expect to go to the polls on Oct. 19 of next year, unless he loses the confidence of the House before then.