Parties plotting when to pull trigger on Parliament

Liberals afraid of their own shadow, says NDP

Conservatives say the Prime Minister won't ever do it, but Stephen Harper does indeed have the prime ministerial power to call any House vote a matter of confidence after the fact, say constitutional experts, as federal political parties plot when to pull the trigger on this Parliament.

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