stof,
It's not just the conservatives who have been playing politics, the Liberals, Bloc and NDP have all been very careful to criticize absolutely everything the Conservatives have done while abstaining from votes to ensure that the government stands because their parties are down in the polls.
Now, I'm pretty sure if we get an election this fall it will be without the Conservatives breaking any election laws ... Most likely the Conservatives will make the throne speech a confidence motion, and the direction layed out in the throne speech will be (pretty much) their election platform; if the opposition parties support the throne speech they will be in a tough position to defeat the government on any confidence motion for the rest of the year, and if they bring down the government based on the throne speech they will be voting against many (very) popular things for average Canadians.
