Tories losing ground in key provinces: poll

[Spazito]

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives are losing ground to Liberals and New Democrats in provinces that will hold the key to electoral victory.

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But the Tories are losing ground in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, the provinces that will mostly likely determine the outcome of the next election.

Nationally, the Liberals were at 32 per cent, the Tories at 29 per cent, the NDP at 16 per cent, the Greens at 11 per cent and the Bloc at nine per cent.

But they trailed the Bloc and Liberals in Quebec, were behind the Liberals in Ontario and were in a second-place tie with the Liberals in British Columbia, where the NDP has top spot.

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http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/090422/n042251A.html

I just love GOOD NEWS!

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. Yeah, but I wish they'd stop calling them Tories. n/m

[Spazito]

3. Good point n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Could you explain that, for an American?

I always assumed the nickname was used in Canada because it's used for the Conservative Party in the UK.

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. In Canada, during my lifetime, the Tories were the Progressive Conservative party.

That political party was subsumed by the neoconservative Canadian Alliance party via a backroom deal that broke a written and signed promise (google "Peter MacKay + David Orchard" for more details on that). The resulting horror was called the Conservative party. They in no way resemble Tories, who in many respects were to the left of the Liberals, and they don't deserve to be referred to as such, especially by experienced journalists who should know better.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Ah, thanks

That also explains something else I was puzzled about. I thought I remembered, from years ago, that the Canadian Conservatives were more liberal than the Liberals, and I didn't understand how that had changed.

[glarius]

2. Yes...and the tone deaf Harper is still refusing to accept Khadr

back in Canada.The young Canadian in Gitmo is the only citizen of a western democracy left there. The others (including Australians and Brits) have all gone home to their respective countries at the request of their home country's governments. Harper's blind arrogance, which makes him unable to accept anyone else's opinions...will be his undoing, IMO. He's digging himself deeper and deeper in a hole. I can't wait to see the bastard defeated.
Here's a report on his refusal to accept the Canadian or American court's decision:


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090423/khadr_harper_090423/20090423?hub=TopStories

[Spazito]

4. He is very tone deaf....

politically, it is not a surprise he wants to appeal it. His arrogance is the mirror image of Bush's arrogance and it will be his downfall, sooner rather than later I suspect.

[Prometheus Bound]

5. Please let it be so!

And thanks for the good news.