Angry in the Great White North

Sorry, but I only captured the audio stream for a segment of today's Mike Duffy Live. In it, Mike Duffy, Jane Tabor, and Craig Oliver discuss the latest polling numbers, showing the Liberals trailing the Conservatives by 10 points, and Craig reveals that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has no intention of calling an election, or engineering a defeat of his government.

Update: The buzz has turned into hard news:

A new national poll says Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in minority government territory, pouring more cold water on once-hot spring election speculation. The poll, conducted for CanWest News Service and Global National, says the Conservatives retain a solid 10-point lead nationally over rival Liberals but continue to fall short of the numbers needed to form a majority. The survey said support for the Tories was up three points to 39%, while support for the Liberals dropped three points to 29%. The NDP climbed two points to 16%, the Bloc edged up to 9% from 8% and the Green party slipped to 7% from 8%. The poll, based on interviews with 846 adults from Tuesday through Thursday, is considered accurate within plus or minus 3.4 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

No election? But then how are the Liberals going to replace Stephane Dion?

Still, plenty of time for the humiliation of dropping out of Central Nova to gnaw at the collective gut of the Liberal Party without an election to show the payoff, if any, from the move.