The minority Harper government is pledging to stay the course despite repeated Liberal threats to bring it down in a non-confidence vote in the Commons.
A recent poll shows 41 per-cent of Canadians support the Tories while backing for Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal party has dropped to 28 per-cent.
Huron-Bruce Conservative MP Ben Lobb says the poll findings are proof that voters are tired of going to the polls.
Lobb says no-one wants an election especially during a time of fragile economic recovery and that the Conservatives need time to guide legislation through the Commons.
In a shot at the Opposition Lobb says a federal election does nobody any good except those who try to force one on Canadians.
Lobb says now is the time for the New Democrats to prove the worth of their support of the minority Tory government.
He says anytime the NDP or any Opposition party wants to make suggestions to improve proposed legislation they’re more than welcome.
Lobb says so far that hasn’t happened and that there has been nothing coming foreard in the way of what he calls “bankable suggestions” to make better bills that are under debate in the House.
Lobb offers an olive branch to the New Democrats to forge an alliance in the Commons, however temporary and convenient is may be for both sides.
Lobb says anytime an Opposition party wants to make suggestions on pending legsialtion the Conservatives will work with them in a positive manner.
The poll numbers aren’t discouraging the Liberals from trying to force a federal election.
Grit backbencher Ken Dryden says his party will keep voting against the Harper government at every opportunity.
It appears some Liberals are increasingly fed up with the goings-on in the Commons — a report surfaced this week that three Grit MPs are talking to the Conservatives about possibly crossing the aisle to the govermment benches.