PM Harper’s Tories want an election, can’t pull the trigger

Tories are considering attack ads based on Jean Chrétien's book.

The minority Harper Conservatives are reluctant to engineer their own defeat, even though they're ready and would welcome an early election, for fears it could backfire if they're seen to be the cause of one, top Conservative insiders told The Hill Times last week.

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