Ndp Breaks 20% In Latest Poll

maplesyrup · February 20, 2004

http://www.praxicus.com/Sponsorshipscandal.htm

Bloc 13%

CPC 28%

Lib 36%

NDP 21%

Oth 2%

Jack Layton has said that he is going for government.

He may well be on his way. :rolleyes:

August1991 · February 20, 2004

Gimme a break.

Ontario voters are parking their votes in a poll with +/- 3%. Don't expect a Bob Rae anytime soon.

The poll is surprising though because it puts the Liberals at 36%. Is this the + of the +/-?

There is a tectonic shift going on in Canada right now and it concerns the feelings of central Canadians (Ontario/Quebec) about Paul Martin. He's not the guy. A bean counter? Not right. Too loud, no panache.

Many Quebecers will vote BQ.

But Ontarios voters are in a quandary. For them, there's no "national" party (meaning no federalist party with apparent support in French Quebec). What to do?

The shift? An outgrowth of the 1995 referendum, and Meech Lake.

Preston Manning has been one to say that the Canadian federation has been living through interesting times in the past 30 years or so. As Canadians, let's see how we deal with this. One to watch.

maplesyrup · February 20, 2004

Those comments about the NDP are quite stale.

You can label Conservatives as Mulronities which is also stale.

Let's live in today's world.

Jack Layton has solid conservative roots - check him out.

The details of the polling does show that true to form that Quebeckers are the most astute voters in Canada.

August1991 · February 20, 2004

Live in today's world? Post modernist? (ie. too many diplomas but no math?)

Jack Layton is conservative? Quebecers astute voters?

You mean black is white, up is down, and since God plays with dice, there is no certainty? We live in a new paradigm?

Puhleeeze.

Jack Layton is a share the wealth, Robin Hood, protect the weak, do-gooder socialist. I don't care who his father was.

Quebecers do not vote astutely. They vote as a miniscule Icelandic minority in an Atlantic Ocean of American Mickey Mice. There are a few Daffy Ducks on the continent and Quebecers occasionally vote with them. Quebecers are not astute. Their situation varies between critical and life-support. Like Newfoundlanders, but unlike Margaret Atwood/CBC/CanCons, they are stubborn, peaceable survivors.

maplesyrup · February 20, 2004

Maybe this seismic shift in the polls is Canadians wanting to take back their country from big business and put the people back in power. :rolleyes:

August1991 · February 20, 2004

I consider myself left wing. In other words, I am prepared to work to build someone else's home. (I enjoy doing it because I would choose to be born into a world where I know I have a home.)

But a fundamental point: I understand that ordinary people choose to give money to Microsoft or McDonald's. On the other hand, ordinary people have no choice when they give money to the government.

Sorry for the political philosophy. But...

For the past 30 years, we in Canada have been involved in a messy discussion. (There are many people in Ottawa who would prefer to avoid this discussion.)

I don't think Canadians are "left wing" as I described myself above. Rather, I think Canadians are maybe polite, eh? Survivors? Civilised?

Abroad, I have said we Canadians fight our civil wars in newspapers. Are we peacable? (Thanks to Quebecers, we Canadians have never had military service, the worst form of State Tax.)

The past few days (remember the air traffic strike, the Charter, Meech, the 1995 referendum) are adding to our collective history. Let's see what happens.