The schedules are out and it looks like it will be a very minimal cease fire. Like, three days. From the sound of things, Harper and Martin will be taking Christmas Eve through Boxing Day off and then will be right back campaigning.

With Ben and Rachal out of school, I strongly suspect we’ll be seeing a lot the Harper kids over the next few weeks. It’s the perfect way to de-scarify Stephen and the media will be looking for the photo ops and fluff pieces over the holidays, rather than the policy announcements. If Harper has smart people running his campaign, he’ll buy some cute snow suits for the kids and drag those two adorable children out to every contrived photo op imaginable.