Inside Politics I

Conservative lead in polls why a 2009 federal election seems preordained

The feeling that the 40th Parliament could be history before it has had a real chance to make history runs just as rampant within the government as it does within the ranks of the opposition parties.

OTTAWA—A quick straw poll of political insiders reveals that every federal party is quietly preparing for another election. Within Parliamentary circles, the notion that Canadians will head back to the polls for a fourth time in five years before the end of 2009 is widely treated as a foreg...

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