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Indeed idealisttotheend freedom to wait weeks just to see a G.P(If you can find one). Freedom to spend months on end on a waiting list just to get a surgical operation. Freedom not to see a specialist because they can't take anymore patients. Thats some freedom idealisttotheend

They tryed that already idealisttotheend and it didn't work. Martin and the Liberals have to run on his record and thats there problem. After 11 years and 3 elections its all about them now, not Harper and the people know that.

If Canada is a free country, shouldn't I have the right to pay for my medical service if I choose to. They haven't it in Britian

Regional Breakdown: Canada: LIB: 34 CPC: 30 NDP: 16 BQ: 12 Atlantic: LIB: 44 CPC: 25 NDP: 25 Québec: LIB: 29 BQ: 44 Ontario: LIB: 36 CPC: 36 NDP: 20 Sask/Manitoba: LIB: 36 CPC: 30 NDP: 25 Alberta: CPC: 49 LIB: 27 NDP: 14 British Columbia: CPC: 39 LIB: 34 NDP: 14 Seat Projection: LIB: 122-126 CPC: 107-111 NDP: 15-19 BQ: 56-60 (Liberals destroyed in Québec.) SEC as no record in political polling and there sample is much to small(200 each day), plus they have yet to come out with regional numbers which has to send off red flag about the credibility. Ipos has decades of a record in political polling in this country. Its lot more credibility coming from Ipsos than SES

Martin will be out of the country for 2 days in the next fews days for D-day events in France, that will not help the Liberal campaign either.

No one knows what religion he is, he as never talked about it. Thats whats so funny about the Liberals trying to make him out to be some fundementelist and why know one believes them.

They seem to vote against their own interest in the last few elections. They have so much natural resources in the region. Were the country was created its just so sad.

Its always been in the back of my mind that Jean Chretien could be behind the collapse of Paul Martin. He as had an extreme dislike for him since the 1990 leadership race and haven't you wondered why Chretien changed his plans to retired in Fed to Dec. Does anyone think that Chretien had planned the downfall of Martin long ago? It would be in Chretien interest not to have Paul Martin continue as Prime Minister and replace him as Liberal Leader with one of his allies. I have this feeling that this may be the case.

People in Atlantic Canada are a bit slower then us in the rest of Canada. I except next week polls the Liberals will be in the high 30's and the NDP and CPC will be in the high 20's. Theres a trend going on and it all across the country from Quebec to B.C, I don't believe that Atlantic Canada is so out of the mainstream of the country to actually have the Liberal vote go up.

In British Columbia the NDP is 14%...so much for Ladys Man..Mans Mans..Man about town Jack Layton or as i like to call him now Wacko Jacko

Its the Second week and things already look really bad for Martin and the Liberals. Looking at these polls it seems like public opinion as soured towards the Liberals. Add all the opposition parties numbers together it adds up to 58%. The Bloc is ahead in Quebec 15 points. that means there ahead by more then 20 in French speaking ridings. The Liberals have been hammered by the CPC and the NDP in Ontario. Right now the CPC will not only make a breakthough in Ontario they would effectly split the province share of ridings with a hand full going the NDP. This also means that the Liberals are dead in the water in British Columbia. Its now a CPC and NDP race out there. Right now, im betting on Martin and the Liberals to go nasty against Harper and I mean really nasty. The likes this country as not seen since the P.C meltdown of 93. Will it work or will it just confirm to the public that this bunch is tired and outdated and willing to do anything to hold upon to power? We will see. Week 2 of Election campaign

Mike Duffy just handed out a teaser to Stephen Harper. Said that Lloyd Robertson will have news tonight that Harper will enjoy! I think we can assume that CTV is about to release a new Ipsos poll, and that it's going to reveal some good news for the CPC. Heads up!!!

Chrétien must be waiting for Martin to come crawling on his knees to get his help. This are going going to get worst for Martin. The Liberals are running scared and they are going to go negative really soon in Quebec and against Harper and Layton, its going to get really nasty. The Liberals and Martin are on the edge of getting desperate

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Martin can't blame McGuinty Warren Kinsella National Post May 31, 2004 And so begins the blame game. With every major daily newspaper in Canada publishing polls which suggest the inevitability of a Liberal minority government -- or, even worse, an actual election loss -- some Grits are starting to look for someone to blame. In politics, that sort of behaviour isn't particularly unusual. As President John F. Kennedy noted following the Bay of Pigs debacle, defeat is an orphan, but victory has 100 fathers. But it is noteworthy, just the same, when a Prime Minister is willing to start subtly pointing an accusatory finger or two at a fellow Liberal. Thus the revealing scene in Sault Ste. Marie on Saturday, when Paul Martin -- while touring a health care facility -- was asked about the recent budget of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. The Prime Minister stated: "I believe that it is very important for political leaders to keep their promises." Well, yes, that much certainly is true. And it is also true that Mr. Martin did not mention Mr. McGuinty by name. But, for the reporters who were following the Liberal leader in Sault Ste. Marie, it was clear to whom the Prime Minister was referring: the Ontario Premier. The implication was "blunt," even, in the assessment of one Canadian Press scribe. As nuanced as the Prime Ministers statement was, it was newsworthy, and for a couple of reasons. Firstly, and until recently, Mr. Martin had taken the position (and correctly so) that the tough measures contained in the Ontario Liberal Party's first budget were the legacy of reckless tax cuts of Conservative premiers Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Why now the change? The second reason Mr. Martin's musings were significant is this: Mr. Martin's gentle jab suggested that federal Liberals were now willing to blame their provincial cousins for their declining electoral fortunes. While Ontario Liberals certainly anticipated that their budgetary measures would present political challenges in the short term, few of them foresaw that the federal party -- much less its leader -- would start to scapegoat them for the slumping polling numbers that now beset the Liberal Party of Canada. It's not fair, and it's not accurate, for starters. After all, the Ontario budget was made public well before the election was called, and the federal party had ample time to put off the vote, had they believed it to be so very harmful to their prospects. It's not as if any of it was a surprise, either: the Prime Minister's most senior advisor, David Herle, conducted top-notch public opinion research on the budget prior to its release. Presumably, Mr. Herle could have picked up the phone and suggested to Mr. Martin that dropping the writ was not advisable in the wake of the McGuinty government's budget. If the Liberal Party of Canada is headed towards a minority government -- or worse -- the reasons for that are not so easily laid at Mr. McGuinty's doorstep. The seeds of declining federal Liberal support were sown long before the Ontario Liberals tabled their budget in the provincial legislature. Polling conducted by the firm in which I am a principal, for example, showed the federal party's support levels have plummeted by approximately 20 percentage points since December, 2003. All of our colleagues in the polling community have found precisely the same thing. The problems being experienced by the Liberal Party of Canada have been well-known for at least six months. That's not all: many of the federal party's wounds are of the self-inflicted variety. Through my Web site, www.warrenkinsella.com, I am in regular contact with many, many unhappy Liberal Party members across Canada. These are the sorts of things they tell me: - The small circle around Mr. Martin has conducted a self-defeating internecine war that has potentially fractured the Liberal party for years to come -- and left it ill-prepared for an early election call. - The new regime has appeared equivocal on Kyoto, campaign finance reform, same-sex marriage and other policies that are central to the progressive Liberal tradition -- thus potentially bleeding support to the NDP. - They have promised too much and delivered too little. Where, now, are the predictions of a 250-seat Liberal majority in the House of Commons? Where is the promise of resurgence in the West and Quebec? - Appallingly, the party has actively recruited separatists to run as candidates, thereby turning their backs on the cardinal Liberal principle of a strong central government -- alienating, in the process, Liberals who subscribe to the Trudeau-Chretien vision of federalism. - Promises of a slew of exciting new policies have come to naught; and, concurrently, many of those found in senior positions in the new regime have shown a pronounced preference for spin over substance -- leaving many in the federal public service feeling both frustrated and despairing. Can the Liberal party turn around its fortunes? Certainly. But it must move quickly, before the leaders' debates. End the civil war; embrace the Left; put together a modest, do-able platform; and -- most of all -- don't blame Dalton McGuinty. It isn't all his fault. You know it, I know it, and so do Canadian voters. Warren Kinsella is a political consultant a former assistant to Jean Chretien. © National Post 2004

It really is silly to have ridings like North Vancouver, West Vancouver - Sunshine Coast, South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale or any of the surry ridings going to the Liberals. The truth is that the Liberals are in free fall in British Columbia just like they are in Quebec and Ontario. They will be lucky to hold on to the seat they have now, they ways things have been going for them. The race in British Columbia will be between the NDP and CPC, with the CPC taken all of the ridings outside the vancouver and the suberbs of Vancouver. In Vancouver and Vancouver Island I expect the NDP to pick up seats. Thats is the reality of this election in British Columbia

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Bloc voters are not all left of center. The bloc is funny it as a mixture of old P.C tories to leftist. If that Bloc were to break up half would go to the Liberals or NDP and half to the CPC.

The Liberals can't spin this one anymore, because its partly true. The wheels are coming off this Liberal train

Its not Martin that is the problem, its the Liberals. After 11 years of promises and lies, the wheels on the Liberal train have finally come off. The Liberals don't know that yet, but when they do there is going to be a shit storm we haven't seen in this country for generations. $9 billion for health, $2 billion for cities, get G8 on board...we've heard it all before..election after election since 1993 they bring out the same old promises. You know the old saying Fool me once same on you, Fool me twice shame on me...well the people are sick of being fooled by this bunch. Its time for change. Canada deserves better

Sorry Alberta Liberals-31% CPC-55%

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Quebec, Quebec , Quebec this is the main problem thats has troubled canada for decades. Its silly to have these programs in places like Victoria or Red Deer were few if any people speck french as a main lang..but we can't change it because it might upset Quebec.

Martin and the Liberals doesn't ahve to hide his agenda all of Canada already knows thats the problem 28 Scandals, 36 on-going police investigations, Canada Steamship Lines, HRDC boondoggles, Gun Registry,Ministers giving girlfriends jobs, Shwinigate, Sponsorship Scandal … you name it, they've done it: embezzlement, fraud, theft, corruption, hidding slush funds, etc. and yes Harper does have a hidden agenda its honesty, good government, Ethics, accountibility, actually finding out were all are taxes are going, knowledge that the books are balanced, no slush funds for embezzlement to take root, no crushy jobs for Liberal friends and contributors, were Parliament has authority to authorized programs and expenditures, proper management of the peoples money, funding the military, letting people choose there candidates and finally getting the truth out about 11 years of Liberal gov't using the peoples money as there own Parties piggy bank. Thats the hidden agenda buddy and the 905 is going to love it.