The meeting rooms on Parliament Hill are all booked this morning. All the parties are holding caucus meetings before Question Period.

Caucus meeting are usually on Wednesdays but after the coalition negotiations of the past few days there is no time to wait.

Ed Broadbent, a former leader of the NDP, was at his party's caucus this morning. On the way in he said there is a coalition agreement and repeated the need for a stimulus package for the economy.

Other caucus members didn't want to say anything as they went into the meeting.

The Bloc Québéecois is also meeting this morning.

As he went in, BQ leader Gilles Duceppe would only say that the events are interesting. Most of the BQ caucus also avoided taking questions as they went in to the meetings.

The Liberal and Conservative caucuses are to meet, independently, at around noon.

— George Hoff