All month long, Prime Minister Lester Pearson has been playing a teasing game with Canadians. Every where he goes he talks in riddles about calling a new election—without ever quite saying it or setting a date. On a visit to Vancouver, he pointed out that an election would be impossible before the end of 1966, if he were to await results of an electoral redistribution now under way. "Do we want to begin our centennial year [1967] with an election?" he asked. "That could mean an election this fall," leaped a newsman. "You have a very succinct way of putting...
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