Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual tie nationally

Ottawa — A new poll suggests Tory support is sliding over voter concern that Canada has become too cozy with the United States on Middle East policy.

The latest results by Decima Research, released to The Canadian Press, put the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual tie nationally.

The Tories had 32 per cent support compared with 31 per cent for the Liberals and 16 per cent for the New Democrats.

But the Liberals widened their Ontario lead to 42 per cent of voter support compared with 33 per cent for the Conservatives, and have pulled in front of the Tories in Quebec for the first time since last winter's campaign.

I think most could see that coming. If the Liberals get themselves a credible leader who will commit to continue rebuilding our military, and keep Canada/U.S. relations reasonable, the tories will be history. Depends on what Harper does about it.

The Tories will win a majority if they govern relatively competent and do not stray too far to the right.

The Tory days of competency are over. They look like W clones on international policy, lumber is blowing up, health care wait times and the fiscal imbalance are politically undeliverable and out of control, Rona is actually going to have to pony up a plan in October, which should be rich, the economy is stuttering and they're broke.

They'll be lucky if they don't end up eating their weak and elderly in public.

And Kelowna WILL come back to haunt them.

I LIKE minority governments.

Sorry to say but the Tories will be history if not sooner then later IMO.
Changing demographics will eventually overwhelm English speaking European Canadians with foreign speakers from the 3rd world. Expect a slew of North African and Lebanese refugees to enter Canada. As most (800,000 to 1 million) claim to support Hezbollah, they will hate Israel and by extension the USA and Conservative Canada. They will vote Liberal or old Socialist. The Liberals were loathe to even label these groups as terrorists as they helped elect Lib MPs.
The 30 million illegals in the USA will tilt the vote for the Dems. People worry about global warming will impact their lives and that of their grandchildren? Hilarious.

First of all, BitWhys, Harper is not a GWB clone, so get over it.

There is a whole bunch of stories going around that the economy is slowing down and then there is another bunch that say that the economy is maintaining speed. The stock markets, energy prices, and inflation continue to rise so that is leading me to believe that the economy is maintaining speed, but that could very well change.

They Conservatives have sort of addressed health care wait times because they did give $1.6 billion extra in the budget. I support a made-in-Canada environment plan. I just hope its not going to be useless. The Conservatives are not broke.

The idea of 0% ecoonmic growth in Canada is just speculation.

Statistics Canada reported Monday that gross domestic product was essentially unchanged in May after edging up 0.1 per cent in both March and April, although it was up by 2.6 per cent from May of last year.

And fine, if you don't believe me about health care wait times money, then I'll provide a link. Health care transfers are expected to grow by 6% every year. That means an extra $1.1 billion went to wait times this year. --

And Harper isn't broke.

The fiscal outlook for Ottawa that Mr. Drummond released yesterday shows the government cannot afford the full GST cut within the promised time frame unless it is introduced part way into the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

Far from reaching 3.2 per cent, "the economy will be hard-pressed to get above 2 1/2 per cent following today's results," wrote BMO Nesbitt Burns economist Douglas Porter.

...Maybe the economy slowed down in May, but it looks like its regaining its speed...

BitWhys

I still don't know why Harper was compelled to lower the GST. I think most people just wanted a change from the Liberals. Knocking a point off the GST is a pile of dough. I guess once he made the promise, he had to keep it. I've always liked the idea of the GST going completely to debt reduction. Oh well. Let's hope Harper doesn't add to the debt. That would make a lot of people unhappy.

The made-in-Canada plan will probably be good. But we'll have to wait to October to see.