Question to Liberals wanting to avoid an election...

"Some top Liberals have urged Dion to cut the incessant sabre rattling and frankly admit the party is in no position to fight an election this spring." - CTV.ca

So the reason that the Liberals are allegedly in no position to fight an election - and I do not, by the way, necessarily disagree with this allegation - is that Stéphane Dion is not a leader. How is this problem going to be solved or even mitigated by an admission by Dion that the official opposition is in no position to fight an election and is therefore prepared to allow the minority government to do whatever it wants?

Stephen Harper these resembles no Prime Minister so much as Joe Clark in that he's a minority Prime Minister who's decided to govern as if he had a majority. Like Clark, he faces a Liberal opposition that gives no appearance of being ready for an election In 1980, though, the Liberals adopted slightly different tactics.