Conservatives jump ahead in poll \
Thu Sep 24, 9:09 AM

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's ruling Conservatives have widened lead over their nearest rivals and if an election were held now, they could be within reach of gaining a majority government, according to a poll published on Thursday.

The Ekos poll, conducted for the CBC, put the Conservatives at 37 percent, up from 35.1 percent a week ago.

Support for the Liberal Party, which says it wants to bring down the minority Conservative government, is at 29.9 percent, unchanged from a week earlier.


The two parties were in a dead heat in a poll by Ekos three weeks ago.


Under Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system, it takes about 40 percent of the vote to win a majority of the 308 seats in the House of Commons.


In the 2008 election, the Conservatives took 37.6 percent of the vote and Liberals 26.2 percent.


The poll also looked the number of committed voters, and Conservatives supporters outnumbered the other parties in the "fully committed" segment by more than three to one.


The "significant advantage that (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper's Conservatives now have in public opinion may actually understate their potential strength in an election," Ekos President Frank Graves said in a release.


"If we restrict our analysis to the most committed portion of the electorate ... it suggests that it will be quite difficult to dislodge the Tories. Moreover, their aspiration for a majority may be tantalizingly close," he said.


The left-leaning New Democratic Party, which normally votes against the government, recently said it may help prop it up in the event of a Liberal nonconference motion next month.


The Conservatives would need the backing of at least one other party to survive the vote, or Canada would head into its fourth election in little over five years.


The New Democrats, which along with the separatist Bloc Quebecois recently helped the government survive a budget vote, fell in the poll to 13.8 percent from 16.5 percent.


The Bloc slipped to 9.1 percent from 9.6 percent, with the Green Party edging up to 10.2 percent from 9 percent.

The Conservative Party should be renamed to the Corporate Party. That's whose interests they are concerned with and those are the types of people who support them, people whose sole interest is in making and keeping as much money as possible. The Liberal Party is even worse. Their main interest is in taking money from the working class and spreading it around between themselves and their business buddies under the guise of some sort of political purpose. So they have the support of a whatever business people who have connections with them to get in on the tax money giveaways.

The Cons might as well build momentum now so they can stumble later. The Fibs are not the solution and neither is the NDP. Not trying to highjack, but I have to point out that the idea is to make the parties cancel each other out and to get a Green seat.

There's far more than a political horse race going on here. The next government is increasingly likely to be the one to lie about the impending global economic collapse. If the barrel hits 200, built in reactionary market forces will collapse the world economy starting with the greenback.

www.chrismartenson.com and www.ted.com are instructive. TED is a goldmine.

peace and pot

After four years of broken promises and division, failure to create jobs and zero credibility on the deficit, Liberals have tabled a motion of no confidence against this government:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6_kNOZCl8&feature=player_embedded

It fucking TOOK LONG ENOUGH....and I'm not even Canadian.

No reason to be thrilled just yet:



http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/28/liberals-non-confidence028.html?ref=rss

Funny thing? I'm just not surprised anymore when Jack Layton supports the enemies of peaceful drug markets.

Actualy they had a very fitting name in the beginning after the backstabbing Peter MacKay made the backroom deal with Harper to join the parties and came up with a new name for their party. They called the new party the Conservative Reform Alliance then with the word Party to that well you get CRAP. They didn't catch on right away to the acronym, but when they did muster all their brain power they must have made a collective duhhhh, they quickly changed it by reusing the old name for an equally stupid collection of idiots(progressive conservatives). You may think I am making this up but it it true, CBC even did a story on it. For once we would have had a collection of politicians named correctly, but like all good things it didn't last LOL

Layton will say anything! He is every bit as bad as the other politicians. He took a pot friendly approach for years, then when he had wide spread support in large part due to this standpoint, he did a total flip flop. At that point I sent him a few nasty emails and promptly quit the party, joining the greens instead. In case I haven't made it clear, Jack Layton is a lying flip flopper! Period!

Reading that layton will support the cons in this non confidence, i don't think i will look at ndp the same anymore....

layton dumb-fucked. We need a whole new lot of leaders that have a half decent brain in their head.

HAHA oh yea, there politicians. Only way they get that high is to lie cheat and steal.