Election timing: Is the fix in?

From the Saturday edition of The Telegram, a rather bizarre statement by the Premier, as quoted and paraphrased by Rob Antle:

Williams Premier Danny Williams won't rule out an early election if he feels more revelations by the auditor general make governing untenable.

"I don't know where this is leading," Williams told The Telegram Friday night.

"I don't know where it is going to go. I don't know where it is going to end ...

"I've got to keep all my options open, but it's certainly not my intention to call an election. It's not. We'll just have to see where this process takes us.

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The premier has already decided on how to proceed should he deem an early election necessary.

In 2004, the Williams administration followed through on an election promise to set fixed election dates every four years.

The next provincial poll is set for Oct. 9. That new election law does allow the lieutenant-governor to dissolve the legislature when he or she sees fit. That is usually done on the advice of the premier. But Williams said he would not go that route. Instead, he would recall the House of Assembly to change election laws, enabling an earlier vote.

An earlier vote is already "enabled". The 2004 bill provides:

3. (1) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Lieutenant-Governor may, by proclamation in Her Majesty’s name, prorogue or dissolve the House of Assembly when the Lieutenant-Governor sees fit.

(2) A polling day at a general election shall be held on the second Tuesday in October, 2007 and afterward on the second Tuesday in October in the fourth calendar year following the polling day at the most recently held general election.

If the Premier has his heart set on breaking his "fixed election" promise, he has already given himself, in subsection 3. (1), the legislative authority to do so.

Why would he re-open this debate on the legislature floor, and thereby draw further attention to the fact that his election promises are utterly meaningless?