Support for Her Majesty’s Government for Canada continues to slip with the Canadian electorate, with the Conservative Party now having the support of only 30.5% of Canadians. Seat projections by EKOS Research conclude that the Government would stand to lose twenty-eight seats were a general election held today, reducing the Conservative presence in the House of Commons to one hundred sixteen voices. The research even concludes that the Conservatives would most probably be “unable to sustain even a minority government”.
Were an election held today, our party standing in the Commons would be:
Interestingly, this is the lowest voter intention that the Conservatives have had since being invited to form the Government of Canada; also, approval of the direction of the federal government is at its lowest level in the eleven years that EKOS Research has tracked this information. Canadians are clearly unhappy with the leadership of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper P.C., M.P. (Calgary Southwest), the Prime Minister, but are just as clearly unsure who should replace the Conservative Party.
The less-than-ideal voter intentions for both the Government and Opposition have also prompted Mr. Frank Graves, an EKOS Research pollster, to suggest that we have entered a “strange new political world” in which Canadians may need to seriously consider coalitions as the only potential way to end our recent streak of minority governments, even going on to suggest that a Conservative-Liberal coalition may be one that makes the most mathematical sense. A coalition between a progressive and conservative party to provide stable government is not unheard of—we need only look to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Mother of Parliaments, for a perfect example of how a coalition might be brought together.
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Were an election held today, our party standing in the Commons would be:
- 116 seats for Her Majesty’s Government (-28 seats)
- 94 seats for Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition (+17 seats)
- 56 seats for the Bloc Québécois (+8 seats)
- 39 seats for the New Democratic Party (+3 seats)
- 2 seats for the Green Party (+2 seats)
Interestingly, this is the lowest voter intention that the Conservatives have had since being invited to form the Government of Canada; also, approval of the direction of the federal government is at its lowest level in the eleven years that EKOS Research has tracked this information. Canadians are clearly unhappy with the leadership of The Right Honourable Stephen Harper P.C., M.P. (Calgary Southwest), the Prime Minister, but are just as clearly unsure who should replace the Conservative Party.
The less-than-ideal voter intentions for both the Government and Opposition have also prompted Mr. Frank Graves, an EKOS Research pollster, to suggest that we have entered a “strange new political world” in which Canadians may need to seriously consider coalitions as the only potential way to end our recent streak of minority governments, even going on to suggest that a Conservative-Liberal coalition may be one that makes the most mathematical sense. A coalition between a progressive and conservative party to provide stable government is not unheard of—we need only look to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Mother of Parliaments, for a perfect example of how a coalition might be brought together.
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- The Globe and Mail • homepage • Tory descent continues in ‘strange new political world’: poll
