Posted AT 3:57 AM EDT on 18/02/08
Why the Grits won't go to the polls
It was the Liberal caucus meeting last Wednesday that marked the turning point. Member after member got up at that session and told Stéphane Dion, "Hell no, don't go." Until that point, the view of John McCallum - plunge into an election campaign and damn the torpedoes - seemed to be holding up.
But this meeting, with only a few dissenters, offered a consensus. Now, if the Liberal leader is to force an early election he will be up against a majority in his party.
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