Posted AT 7:50 AM EDT on 28/03/08
All votes are created equal in this country
Environics president Michael Adams is a justly renowned interpreter of Canadian social trends, but even celebrity pollsters sometimes make mistakes. Mr. Adams's contention in a recent column that an urban-rural split is replacing regionalism as the main cleavage in Canadian politics is one of those mistakes.
To start with, Mr. Adams's facts are shaky. He claims the Conservatives were shut out of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in the last election.
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