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Threat of early Canada elections quelled
Associated Press
Published October 18, 2007
TORONTO - Canada's opposition Liberal leader announced Wednesday his party won't force early elections by voting against the minority Conservative government's legislative agenda. A decision by the Liberals and two other opposition parties to vote against Prime Minister Steven Harper's priorities announced Tuesday night would have triggered a fall election. But Liberal leader Stephane Dion said Canadians don't want another election. "We will not make the federal government fall," Dion said. "We believe it's not in the national interest to have an election now." In a speech on its priorities for a new session of Parliament, the Conservative government said Canada's military in Afghanistan should stay until at least 2011 but promised a vote on the issue.
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