February 12th: “Canadians are concerned about the economy right now, they don’t want to see politicians playing political games at the moment,” the Prime Minister’s communications director, Kory Teneycke, said, explaining why they haven’t done to Mr. Ignatieff what they did to Mr. Dion. “But we’re not focused on politics right now. We’re not planning to go to a campaign right now.”

May 13th: Tories, slipping in polls, launch attack ads