Posted AT 9:22 PM EST on 26/08/08
Election clue: Jean asked to cancel trip
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked Governor-General Michaëlle Jean to cancel her plans to leave for China Sept. 5, portraying a snap election as a near certainty and hinting he will ask Ms. Jean to trigger it next week.
At an Ottawa news conference Tuesday, Mr. Harper said he would not be breaking his word by disregarding his own fixed-election-date law that schedules voting day in October of 2009.
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