Canada to get a new government

Toronto: Canada?s Opposition parties introduced a no-confidence motion on Thursday to oust the rulling government.

According to the motion, Prime Minister Paul Martin's government will fall and election will take place during the Christmas holidays. However, Martin has rejected their demand to go to the polls.

Canada's three Opposition party leaders have said that they will vote on Monday to bring down Martin's government.

Referring to a corruption scandal, Opposition parties said that the ruling Liberal Party no longer has the moral authority to lead the nation.

Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper has said that his party would join with the New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois parties to form a new government.

Harper has gathered enough Opposition votes to bring down the minority government in a no-confidence vote in Parliament.

The motion was tabled in Ottawa, where the government rushed to offer a cascade of policy announcements before its demise.

Martin's government faced threat after it lost the support of the New Democratic Party.

Martin made a deal with Layton's Leftist party in 2004, pledging $3.6 billion in social spending and a promise to delay billions in corporate tax cuts.

In return, the New Democrats propped up the Liberals in a confidence motion, providing the support of their 19 members for a House of Commons motion that they survived by a single vote.

Recent surveys in Canada have shown that the Liberals are at slight lead over the Conservatives, with the New Democratic Party in third place nationally.

The Opposition is banking on the public's disgust with an ongoing Liberal Party corruption scandal.