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As a Toronto Tory I was surprised to see ridings that haven't been blue since the Mulroney years flip blue. I mean did anyone see Liberal Mississauga, Brampton, Etobicoke, North York to go entirely blue.

The CPC is for the Provinces being allowed to experiment on the delivery of care. In this country we already have quite a few private facilities but as long as you are able to gain access with your health card and not a credit card I don't think most Canadians will care.

We have an aging population and health care cost continue to rise. Health care is continuously eating into government spending each year and the revenue is not growing to sustain other vital programs.

With the defeat of multiple Cabinet ministers to go along with a number of ministers who decided not to run the Harper Cabinet has been weakened. That leaves a lot of big holes for the Prime minister to fill with least experienced players.So who has any cabinet projections and do any of the newly elected members get in a junior position????

Consevtives will continue to pour billions into a unsustainable system and hope the Provinces deal with the issues.

Imo the liberal party is dead unless it separate them selves from their main opponents on the left and right. I think a Liberal party that was far more libertarian would be far more successful.

Latest Nanos The latest Nanos is showing strong support for the Tories in every region outside of Quebec. Atlantic Conservative 47.5 Liberal 29.8 NDP 21.0 Quebec NDP 30.2 BQ 27.4 Liberal 22.0 Conservative 14.1 Ontario Conservative 47.8 Liberal 29.3 NDP 16.9 Prairies Conservative 47.9 NDP 24.2 Liberal 23.9 BC Conservative 44.1 NDP 27.4 Liberal 24.0 These regional numbers should obviously with a grain of salt due to the large margin of error because I canèt really believe the CPC would be in the high 40s in Ontario.

I'm not assuming that the NDP is getting their support from ex libs/bloc but instead suggesting that if enough libs/bloc voters make the switch than the tories might just sneak in. Also I'm not really seeing a NDP surge in those provinces but I haven't really paid close attention to the regional numbers in the polls this election or as close as I probably should.

CTV/Nanos Poll National If the Liberals are really that low in the polls than the Tories might sneak in a majority despite polling under the traditional majority %. However with how bad the quebec numbers are for Harper he might just loss much of his current 11 seats in the provinve.

British Columbia CPC 23(+1), NDP 9, LPC 4(-1) Alberta CPC 27, NDP 1 Saskatchewan CPC 13, LPC 1 Manitoba CPC 9, NDP 4, LPC 1 Ontario CPC 51(-1), LPC 40(+3), NDP 15(-2) Quebec BQ 50, LPC 14, CPC 10 NDP 1 New Brunswick CPC 7(+1). LPC 2(-1), NDP 1 Nova Scotia LPC 5, CPC 4, NDP 2 Prince Edward Island LPC 2(-1), CPC 2(+1) New Foundland and Labador LPC 4(-2), CPC 2(+2), NDP 1 North CPC 2, LPC 1 TOTAL CPC 150 LPC 74 BQ 50 NDP 34

I really hope we can have a stable Government over the next 4 years. I would perfer a Conservative Majority but i'll even live with a coalition if it means the next election will be in '15. If the tories do get in with a another minority I just don't see how the other parties can work with them. I mean just a few weeks ago they found them in contempt so it would be strange to see any of the parties working with a party they see as liars. Does that mean that we'll be heading for another election in the next year or 2??????

On subsidies maybe there should be some kind of threshold where funding will no longer be received. For example parties like the CPC, libs and NDP get enough from fundraisers that they shouldn't also get subsidies. While Parties that don't reach the threshold in fund raising like the Bloc and Greens, other fringe parties will still receive the per vote subsidy. Nobody here wants to silence democratic parties and I feel that is probably the best approach to saving tax payers money while still giving fringe parties the support they need

I haven't been following quebec polling numbers but those are shocking liberal numbers to me.

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Something interesting that I read on CalgaryGrit

It is still early but maybe it wont be that close

Interesting that the Sun has called the NS ridding for the Conservatives. I thought results weren't going to be coming in until 10 Tories win first of four federal byelections I'll be first to say I was wrong in buying into the supposed anger at the Tories in this ridding.

I was watching the ridding profile on CPAC earlier in the Week and it seems like there is still a lot of anger toward the CPC over the Bill Casey situation. With a popular NDP Provincial Government who won 3 of the 5 provincial seats that make up the ridding this traditional Tory ridding might turn orange.

BTW someone mention sawed off shot guns earlier, I thought that those type of weapons would be banned/restricted to begin with.

I'm not so sure if the Registry is useless but it is clear it needed to be revamped. I as well would like to see more study/discussion on this. I don't see how talking about handguns adds to the discussions. I guess anything is possible but we should focus on things that are on the radar. Instead we are talking about what the Tories would do if they win a Majority. Majority????? This country might not see one any time soon.

Jdobbin why are you continuing with these semantics you know very well the long gun portion has been stressed over and over. There are also been other arguments that have been used against the long gun registry. Right now this thread is being derailed by your partisan attacks instead we should be talking about the next steps of this process.

Red Toryism died in the late 80's however if Dave Cameron(most likely the next British PM) embraces red tory ideals there is a chance that it might be reborn.

I don't want to be too critical of the Liberal party but they have some deep rooted problems. They've been reduced to mainly being a Toronto/Montreal party and the avg age of their MP's is what over 60???? Where's the fresh blood instead I see a lot of politicians who have grown stale being in the house since 1993.

It was hard to watch. I can understand why he would react in that fashion but he should used self constraint.

Which conservative MP's????