Oh, Conservative Canada..
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:54 pm
What a fucked up country.. No wonder so many Canucks are such mindless Bush hating brainwashed cretins, being fed such propaganda by their state run TV.
Anyways, glad they appear to actually be getting rid of the corrupt Liberal Party. Although I should take polls with a grain of salt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... world.html
Canada's Conservatives appear to be steaming towards a historic general election victory, opinion polls have predicted.
With less than a week until polling day on Jan 23, yesterday every survey showed that the party that has been out of power for more than a decade is poised to crush the ruling Liberals headed by Paul Martin, the prime minister.
Stephen Harper
Mr Harper gets his message across at a campaign rally
The latest polls give the Conservatives a 10-point lead over the Liberals, with some showing a widening gap between the two parties.
Amid growing signals of panic in the Liberal ranks, the party has launched a series of crudely anti-American commercials. One stated that victory for the 47-year-old Tory leader, Stephen Harper, would "bring a smile to George W Bush's face".
Another described Mr Harper as "pro-Iraqi war, anti-Kyoto, socially conservative... Bush's new best friend".
But despite strong anti-Americanism among voters, the adverts have had little effect on the polls. Voters appear far more concerned about domestic issues such as corruption. The Conservatives have already promised not to send troops to Iraq.
Liberal sources have begun briefing journalists about widespread internal dissent. One Liberal told the Toronto Star that Mr Martin, in office since December 2003, would pay the price for a failed campaign.
"He'll be out of here on election night," he told the paper.
Senior Liberals publicly admit that they are in serious trouble. A senior campaign strategist, Mike Robertson, told a television interviewer: "I don't think any of us are going to disagree that if you look at the polls, there is no question that if the election were held today the Conservative Party would form a government."
Pollsters say that the Tories look certain to poll most votes but cannot yet be sure of winning a majority in the 308-member House of Commons. Frank Graves, the head of the Ekos polling organisation, said that was now the election's biggest question. "Clearly, he [Mr Harper] is going to achieve a government of some sort," he said.
In elections 18 months ago, the Conservatives also seemed poised to triumph but the party fell back as the Liberals launched a fierce last-minute assault.
But this time the Tory surge looks more sustained and their message clearer. The party is promising clean government, tax cuts, a tough line on crime and much increased funding for the hard-up armed forces.
The Liberals have been hurt by a bribery scandal when it was revealed that the party gave millions of taxpayers' dollars to allies in public relations agencies. Further questions over the party's ethics have dogged it through the campaign.
Canada now faces the prospect of a majority Tory government for the first time since the party's disastrous 1993 showing, when the prime minister Kim Campbell lost office in a tidal wave which reduced her party from 169 MPs to two.
Mr Harper is viewed by some as a strangely insular politician with an aversion to the press. Those who have watched him closely explain this as the result of the way he despises the politics of soundbites and stunts.
William Johnson, who has been researching a book on the party leader, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation he has "contempt for politicians, for the cheap tricks they play". Instead, for Mr Harper, politics is about policy.
Yesterday he emphasised a traditional Conservative interest: defence.
He said: "I have made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation, and to make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent, but are actually noticed by other powers around the world."
Anyways, glad they appear to actually be getting rid of the corrupt Liberal Party. Although I should take polls with a grain of salt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... world.html
Canada's Conservatives appear to be steaming towards a historic general election victory, opinion polls have predicted.
With less than a week until polling day on Jan 23, yesterday every survey showed that the party that has been out of power for more than a decade is poised to crush the ruling Liberals headed by Paul Martin, the prime minister.
Stephen Harper
Mr Harper gets his message across at a campaign rally
The latest polls give the Conservatives a 10-point lead over the Liberals, with some showing a widening gap between the two parties.
Amid growing signals of panic in the Liberal ranks, the party has launched a series of crudely anti-American commercials. One stated that victory for the 47-year-old Tory leader, Stephen Harper, would "bring a smile to George W Bush's face".
Another described Mr Harper as "pro-Iraqi war, anti-Kyoto, socially conservative... Bush's new best friend".
But despite strong anti-Americanism among voters, the adverts have had little effect on the polls. Voters appear far more concerned about domestic issues such as corruption. The Conservatives have already promised not to send troops to Iraq.
Liberal sources have begun briefing journalists about widespread internal dissent. One Liberal told the Toronto Star that Mr Martin, in office since December 2003, would pay the price for a failed campaign.
"He'll be out of here on election night," he told the paper.
Senior Liberals publicly admit that they are in serious trouble. A senior campaign strategist, Mike Robertson, told a television interviewer: "I don't think any of us are going to disagree that if you look at the polls, there is no question that if the election were held today the Conservative Party would form a government."
Pollsters say that the Tories look certain to poll most votes but cannot yet be sure of winning a majority in the 308-member House of Commons. Frank Graves, the head of the Ekos polling organisation, said that was now the election's biggest question. "Clearly, he [Mr Harper] is going to achieve a government of some sort," he said.
In elections 18 months ago, the Conservatives also seemed poised to triumph but the party fell back as the Liberals launched a fierce last-minute assault.
But this time the Tory surge looks more sustained and their message clearer. The party is promising clean government, tax cuts, a tough line on crime and much increased funding for the hard-up armed forces.
The Liberals have been hurt by a bribery scandal when it was revealed that the party gave millions of taxpayers' dollars to allies in public relations agencies. Further questions over the party's ethics have dogged it through the campaign.
Canada now faces the prospect of a majority Tory government for the first time since the party's disastrous 1993 showing, when the prime minister Kim Campbell lost office in a tidal wave which reduced her party from 169 MPs to two.
Mr Harper is viewed by some as a strangely insular politician with an aversion to the press. Those who have watched him closely explain this as the result of the way he despises the politics of soundbites and stunts.
William Johnson, who has been researching a book on the party leader, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation he has "contempt for politicians, for the cheap tricks they play". Instead, for Mr Harper, politics is about policy.
Yesterday he emphasised a traditional Conservative interest: defence.
He said: "I have made no secret of our desire to rebuild the Canadian military to have the capacities of a sovereign nation, and to make foreign policy decisions that are not only independent, but are actually noticed by other powers around the world."
