Conservatives lead with 33 per cent support following Globe debate on economy: poll
Following the second leaders’ debate on the economy last week, the Conservatives continue to lead in public opinion polls, with 33 per cent support, according to a new poll by Forum Research. The poll, conducted on Sept. 18 with 922 Canadians and has a margin of error of three percentage points, shows the NDP and […]
Politics This Morning Election 2015: Harper’s in for fight of his life
Good Monday morning! It’s week eight of the election campaign, and, according to the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson, it won’t matter if Stephen Harper wins or loses his fifth election campaign as the Conservative leader. “He has already reshaped Canada. And Canada will not easily be changed back,” writes Mr. Ibbitson in his new […]
More than a dozen federal candidates knocked off by past ‘bozo’ comments and actions
More than a dozen candidates from the Conservatives, NDP, and Liberals combined have been turfed by their respective parties in “gotcha” or “bozo” moments—from unearthed past discretions to old social media posts—and politicos say it should be a warning to prospective politicians. “It’s a function of the time. I think in 10 years from now […]
Toronto-based Bensimon Byrne doing Liberal campaign ads, has done federal and Ontario ads
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s English-language television advertisements have been drawing comparisons to Kathleen Wynne’s iconic “Never Stop” running ad from the 2013 provincial campaign, and for good reason: they were produced by the same ad firm. Toronto-based Bensimon Byrne is making Liberal Party’s anglophone ads for this campaign. In both of Mr. Trudeau’s main spots, […]
Is a majority government still possible? Yep
VANCOUVER—For almost seven weeks, this election has been locked in a three-way race. Are we now locked into a minority result? I think not. There is room for all three main parties to make it to majority. Let’s start with the government. Two-thirds say it is time for a change. More than half say the […]
Voters dislike Harper, but he’s in good company
OTTAWA—So the polls, and lots of anecdotal evidence, say that a great many voters don’t like Stephen Harper. In response, here’s a question. Would someone be good enough to name a Conservative/ Progressive Conservative party leader that a great many voters liked? At the risk of dating myself, I remember Conservative Party leaders going back […]
Flaherty could have signed off on NDP’s fiscal framework
OTTAWA—Jim Flaherty could have signed off on the fiscal framework the NDP presented on Sept. 16. It borrows more from the late finance minister’s budgets than it offers in original content—at least at the front end of a New Democrat federal mandate. That starts with the tax-cutting infrastructure Flaherty put in place over his near […]
Knock knock: candidates discuss their door game
OTTAWA—It’s after 6 p.m. on a warm September evening, and after a long day of campaigning, rookie NDP candidate Nancy Tremblay is out knocking on doors in Orléans, Ont., a riding she hopes to snatch on Oct. 19 from Conservative veteran Royal Galipeau, who’s in tough in this election. It’s a suburban community in Ottawa’s […]
Radio jingle: Bernier rhymes with député
As the Conservatives poll in the low-teens in Quebec, one candidate has taken matters into his own hands with a catchy new jingle. Beauce, Que., candidate Maxime Bernier, the minister of state for small business and tourism, has taken a lesson from his Cabinet portfolio in marketing himself to voters. The 30-second radio ad song […]
Horse race has pollsters ‘running out of words,’ but could mean higher voter turnout
For the first seven weeks of this 78-day election campaign, the poll narrative has hardly changed: it’s a tight, three-way race. While some worry that focusing on the scoreboard increases voter apathy, if the numbers don’t change it could push more Canadians to closely scrutinize party promises and get out and vote, pollsters say. “I’ve […]
