Reuters: Canada's main parties near dead heat in new poll

[Eugene]

Canada's main parties near dead heat in new poll
Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:29am ET

By Janet Guttsman

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's two main parties are neck and neck in an opinion poll
published on Saturday, leaving the outcome of the next federal election up in the air.

The Ipsos-Reid poll of 1,004 Canadian voters, published in the National Post newspaper,
gave the opposition Liberal Party 36 percent voter support, compared with 34 percent
for the ruling Conservative Party. Taking the poll's 3.1 percent margin of error into
account, that is almost a dead heat.

"I couldn't say who would win," pollster Darrell Bricker told the paper, describing the
race as "very, very competitive."

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The Liberals and the separatist Bloc Quebecois have already hinted they might try to
bring the government down early next year, making a spring election likely.

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-12-16T153229Z_01_N16420248_RTRUKOC_0_US-POLITICS.xml

[Monk06]

1. Harper blew it with his "Quebec is a nation" thought bubble. He thought he would take out

out Ignatieff but he ended up pissing off
Reform Conservatives and the Bloc.

What a maroon. He's not nearly as smart
as I thought he was.

Rule one in English/Quebec politics, don't
try to tell Qubecers that they who they are.
They already know who they are and don't need
an Alberta Conservative policy wonk to tell them.

[Vidar]

2. I have faith in the Canadians. They've had enough of bush light.