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PM Harper’s sweeping omnibus budget bill lays political track for next federal election, say Nanos

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are ‘laying political track’ for the next federal election by stuffing their first majority-government budget with dozens of controversial measures and ramming the legislation through the Commons at lightning speed with Parliament set to adjourn on June 22 for a three-month summer recess, says Nanos Research pollster Nik Nanos.

The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pictured on March 29 with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the day the budget was released. Pollster Nik Nanos says the budget bill may be controversial but it carries all the signs of shrewd political strategy for long-term gain at the expense of short-term turbulence. They’re laying the political track right now.

 

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