The Conservatives, whose support was necessary to keep the Liberals in power, served notice that they might not hold off forever, in light of damning testimony against the Liberal Party at an inquiry into possible kickbacks.
"There's nothing to indicate that we should be having an election immediately," Stephen Harper told reporters after a weekly meeting of Conservative legislators.
But he also said: "I haven't made a judgement, and I don't think the public's made a judgement, that an election should be delayed indefinitely."
The media, it seemed, was starving for a federal election.
