I may have more on the latter but this is worth posting. Here are the latest polling numbers according to Ipsos-Reid.
Liberals: 36%
Conservatives: 28%
NDP: 17%
Bloc Quebecois: 11%
Interesting. Did the last year even happen? All parties can't be happen but the Liberals are probably the least upset. The Conservatives still seem to have a ceiling at 30% and the "better balanced budget" seems to have done more harm than good to the NDPs electoral prospects. I have gone on record many times saying that the NDP is ok with that prospect. They have decided they are a leftward magnet to Liberal policy not an alternative governing party.
This is probably pure coincidence.
...NDP Leader Jack Layton says his party is no longer in bed with the federal Liberal government.
Layton says the Liberal-NDP alliance that kept Prime Minister Paul Martin in power in the spring ended when the federal budget received Royal assent.
The Liberals struck a 4.6 billion dollar deal with the NDP in the spring to help pass the federal budget.
Layton isn't ruling out a possible coalition with the Bloc Quebecois and the Conservatives to bring down the government this fall.
Or is MP Layton plotting a way to get his "central role" in the next Liberal minority government?
