Posted on 14/05/08
Tories losing ground with voters
The federal Tories have emerged from a controversy-laden winter scarcely ahead of the equally beat-up Liberals as Canadians express insecurity about their children's economic future.The results of a new wide-ranging poll for The Globe and Mail-CTV News finds Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives a scant three percentage points ahead of Stéphane Dion's Liberals, 34 to 31. Mr. Harper's government has fallen from a height of 39 per cent in February, when the party was inching into majority government territory. Moreover, voters in Ontario, a keystone to a potential Conservative majority, are telling their government that it's not doing enough to help them weather turbulent economic waters.
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