The son of a man who brought glamor and excitement to Canadian politics in the late 1960s is favored to become Canada’s next prime minister. More broadly, as many as 80 per cent of Canadians surveyed by pollsters say they agree with the prime minister.
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Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s almost 10 years in power could end tomorrow, along with his dream of shattering Canada’s image as a liberal bastion.
“Undergoing such a contest at such a painful time – with the media and other parties posing as judge and jury – was an especially unwelcome burden”. We might even actually be forced to have discussions about serious issues. No. The Liberals and NDP both say they will do this.
An NDP government would seek to reverse the Conservative-driven trend towards allowing industries with a direct impact on public safety – food inspection and railways in particular -to self-regulate, Mulcair said.
Liberals governed Canada for 69 years during the 20th century.
Voting on a particular national issue is idealistic and a waste of this election if the party that supports it never gets into power. It used similar technology but with a larger sample size (665) and resulting lower error margin (3.7 percentage points). The New Democratic Party (NDP), which seemed briefly the party most likely to garner the most new support in this election, has suffered a substantial decline.
The Conservatives are also projected to benefit most from the once-a-decade redistribution of parliamentary districts based on population dynamics.
An oil sands plant in Alberta. The Liberals have committed to a few sort of change but are internally divided on the specifics and have only agreed to study proportional representation as one of many possible approaches. Proportional seat models assume that if a party’s vote doubles in a province, it will double in every seat within that province.
Mulcair, like the Conservatives, is working to make a match set of Trudeau and Ontario’s Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, who has roiled Ontario’s electorate with a series of policy choices after winning a majority last spring. “Quebec will decide if it’s a majority”. The site also forecast 110 seats for the Conservatives and 86 for the NDP, 1 for the Bloc Quebecois and 1 for the Green Party. The National Post Saturday endorsed the Conservatives, citing Harper’s record.
“I’m a politician, and I have an opinion about politics, so I’m not going to stay completely out of it. But overall, throughout this campaign, I believe my government has taken a relatively light touch to engaging in the federal election”.
“You deserve a government that doesn’t take your votes for granted, or that assumes it will have your votes because of where you live, and a government that understands that the time to invest in Alberta is now, when people need help”. This time, it is not just party machines that are trying to grab those seats. I think left voters will be very keen to vote at this election, and that proportional swing models are more reasonable given the current party standings, but these concerns are legitimate.
“He said, ‘If you’re willing to vote Green in your riding, I will vote for whichever candidate is best positioned to defeat the Conservative, ‘” Mr Lavoie said.
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Stephen Harper begins his Sunday on the stump in Newmarket, Ont., – part of the so called 905 belt around Toronto that was so crucial to the Conservative leader’s victory in the 2011 election.
