OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has agreed to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper tommorow but it's not clear if talks will stave off a federal election.
The two political leaders will meet at 24 Sussex Dr. at 4 p.m. Monday. Harper has already met with Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe and NDP Leader Jack Layton, who both emerged concluding that Harper is intent on pulling the plug on Parliament.
A PMO official who has said an election call could come as early as this week for an Oct. 14 vote could not predict if tomorrow's meeting will alter the course of events.
Dion spokesman Mark Dunn could also not speculate on what the outcome of talks would have on a possible election, but said the Liberal Leader is not prepared to offer Harper any "blank cheques."
Dion will ask why Harper is so "desperate" to trigger an election by breaking his own fixed election date law and "manufacturing" a crisis in Parliament. He will also demand answers on the Harper government's "mismanagement" of the economy and "blindness" to the climate change crisis.
"He'll ask the same questions Canadians are asking. What have you done to this country?" Dunn said.