Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid a visit to his war room after leaving his meeting with Governor General Michaëlle Jean this morning at Rideau Hall and before his arrival at Ottawa's airport for a flight to Quebec City. The Conservative war room — dubbed the 'fear factory' by some wags in Ottawa — sprawls across the entire second floor of an office building in an industrial park in Ottawa's east end. About 100 people go to work there every day. The facility is a high-tech affair with IP-based telephones and a fully-functioning TV studio.
Harper paid a visit to these folks to pump his troops up as he and they head into battle for the Oct 14 vote.
The Conservatives plan to use its war room as their national communication hub. I'll be out there at 6 am Ottawa time Monday morning for a press conference with two (as yet unnamed) ministers. We've been told to expect a lot of bright-and-early pressers from their war room as the Conservatives try to set the day's agenda by being first with the news. Harper is spending the night in Vancouver and, as a result, he will show up a little later in the day in the eastern Canadian mediascape.
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