No Election in the Offing

As reported in the Globe's Ottawa Notebook, Stephen Harper's former pollster, Dimitri Pantazopoulos, feels no federal election is imminent.

Given the profound timidity shown by the Liberals under Michael Ignatieff's leadership, which I have already written about, that is hardly a startling prediction. The latest indication that the Liberals are 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," is Bob Rae's comments on the wrong-headedness of the Harper Government's decision to end the mandatory long form census. When asked if this could trigger an election, he was, to say the least, non-committal.

As I have said before, the Liberals are going to have to prove with more than cheap words that they are defined by something other than an intense desire to return to power before they can have my vote in the next election.