"Breathtaking" poll sees defeat for Canada Liberals [View All]

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Conservatives 36.2%
Liberals 25%
NDP 20.5%
BQ 12.6%

"Breathtaking" poll sees defeat for Canada Liberals

Mon Apr 11, 2005


OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's minority Liberal government is heading for defeat at the hands of the Conservatives after more than 11 years in power, a dramatic new poll is predicting.

The EKOS poll, commissioned by the Toronto Star, was taken after an advertising executive raised the stakes in a scandal about misuse of government cash by testifying he had paid large kickbacks to the Liberals in French-speaking Quebec.

The poll published on Monday showed support for the Conservatives rose seven points to 36.2 percent while the Liberals fell by nine points to just 25 percent.

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EKOS polled 1,125 Canadians between Thursday and Saturday, and its survey is considered accurate to within 2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The poll gave 20.5 percent support to the leftist New Democratic Party and 12.6 percent to the Bloc Quebecois, which runs only in Quebec.

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