[CaptainCrunch]

To me this is a stupid move, and it almost makes me thing that Ignatieff doesn't have control over his party at the moment.

Is there a good reason for an election, and is an election beneficial to the Liberal's?

Not really:

We're starting to get good news about the economic recovery of this nation. While to me the Conservatives didn't need to build the stimulus package that they did, they can honestly fight the Liberal's on the dollars spent as its something that the Liberal's forced on the government so that they could stay in power, and now the Liberal's are going to topple this over that? To me its almost a debate that the Liberal's can't win.

The Kadr thing, its a stupid dumb thing to fight an election over, The fashionable Lib left will vote to support the Liberal's over it, the Conservative right will vote against it, the middle of the pack either won't care, or will look at the Khadr family and ask why the hell we should fight an election over it and back lash the Liberal's over it. I doubt its enough to change the government, and that and the stupid passport fight aren't really strong election items in a weak economic time. Plus if it is over that little monster, the Conservatives can merely drop their court challenge and bring him back to Canada and parade him around pre-election.

The Unemployment thing? Maybe, I can almost get on board with standards across the nation, but really each region is going to have different requirments. But the Conservatives could destroy the Libs over the reduction of eligibility time just by pointing out the economic model.

The food scandal or the H1N1 flu? Nobody wants to see the government fall over that.

Senate reform due to Harper adding conservatives to the Senate? I would think that Harper could pretty successfully pound on Iggy in a senate reform debate.

Lets face it, Jack Layton hasn't performed well this time around, and I think people are tiring of the NDP. The Green's have become a complete fringe party and a non entity, and I would doubt that they will be invited to the debate no matter how much queen green insano bean screams about it.

The Liberal's haven't done a good job of taking momentum due to their leadership change and they've stalled in the polls, and Ignatieff hasn't really shown much in the way of vision or smart policies whereas the Conservatives have a lot of ammo in the bag.

If there's anytime for the conservatives to gain a majority, its now, because I'm hoping that there will be a severe backlash against the Liberal's calling a wastfull pointless election.