By David Akin
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean early Sunday morning and ask her to dissolve the 39th Parliament, Canwest News Service has learned. Canadians will vote Oct. 14, after the shortest campaign permitted by law.
Harper will begin campaigning immediately after leaving the Governor General’s residence at Rideau Hall, touching down in at least two cities and possibly three before day’s end Sunday.
The general election will supersede four scheduled byelections — two each in Quebec and Ontario. Voters in three of those ridings were set to vote Monday.
Harper’s decision to ask for a general election ends one of the longest minority Parliaments in the country’s history.
