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January 22, 2007: "The odds that 2007 will contain a national election are still running extremely high..." — MP Garth Turner
February 6, 2007: "...seems to me we will be having a federal election right quick. I expect the Conservatives will force this to happen somehow, or let it happen, not long after the March 20th budget." — MP Garth Turner
February 20, 2007: "There will be an election this Spring or early summer." — MP Garth Turner
March 2, 2007: "My prediction, now months old, that we will have a Spring election, still stands. We will. The vote is in May." — MP Garth Turner
March 17, 2007: "Harper will be toast. He knows it now. That's why an election will be called in the next few days." — MP Garth Turner
March 30, 2007: "There'll be an election called in the next couple of weeks, it seems." — MP Garth Turner
April 4, 2007: "So, sad but true right now that every MP in every riding is spending far more time on election preparedness than on doing their damn job. An election in 2007 is pointless, needlessly expensive, unjustified and probably dangerous." — MP Garth Turner
April 28, 2007: "We need an election. Now." — MP Garth Turner
June 24, 2007: " I am keenly aware that in the election I expect to take place within a very short time..." — MP Garth Turner
September 5, 2007: "So, I am thinking this throne speech is a veiled election call." — MP Garth Turner
October 4, 2007: "The next federal election campaign could begin two weeks from Friday. That would have it concluding before the end of November." — MP Garth Turner
October 21, 2007: "Clearly there will be an election soon." — MP Garth Turner
December 30, 2007: "Soon, I'd say, there will be another election." — MP Garth Turner
Photo: Garth Turner makes a funny face as he answers reporters questions at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday, Oct 18, 2006 to discuss his suspension from the National Conservative caucus. By Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press
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