"Ring of Fire could be a carrot and Senate ( much promissed and delayed ) could be the excuse. He does not need to give details"----Edgy

EDGY: yea, .....of course a majority party (the Feds) can call an election anytime ....Chretien comes to mind, if memory serves.

The news outlet drums have been beating for an early spring Ontario election triggered likely by the coming ON budget vote and supported by liberal incompetence in any matters related to policy, broken promises and fiscal management. How can any other party do worse?

I think the Feds' RoF infastructure help will trigger a jobs- led platform with Hudak informed with sufficient details to trigger a job based recovery platform with $ and job quantites in RoF/Ontario wide benefited ridings.

As is always the case, projects that are "shovel ready" (such as NOT) will get immediate funding AND publicity which will flow to the feds' election timeline planning. All the ducks are aligning:- Dec 20 EA release is next: ( including permits; 6 local FN agreements, etc).

"Development Corp" will NOT membership/ investment commitment as a late January/14 followup announcment .

Just guessing and speculating along with you, Edgy...... but i've been buying more NOT.

Peter