Twice is twice as good. With that in mind I say you can never have enough polling firms. Macleans (h/t NealeNews) has jumped on board with the Innovative Research Group. The information is somewhat hard to decrypt so I will just quote from it.
...After a week on the hustings, the ruling Liberals and the opposition Conservatives find themselves in a statistical dead-heat outside of La belle province -- 40 per cent to 37 per cent of decided voters. And while English Canadians seem less than enthused about their options -- Stephen Harper and Paul Martin are rated as "inspiring" by just 13 and 11 per cent respectively -- the early advantage appears to be titling toward the Tories. The official opposition is doing a better job holding on to its supporters from the 2004 vote, retaining nine out of 10, versus just three of four for the Liberals, and is making gains in key policy areas like taxation, crime and U.S.-Canada relations. And perhaps most surprisingly, the two parties are almost tied on health care, the issue that scared many voters away from casting a ballot for the Conservatives in past campaigns.
It is not clear who is at 40% and who is at 37% but the way it is ordered implies Liberals-40%, Conservatives-37%. In the last election the English Canada polling results were:
Liberals: 37.6%
Conservatives: 36.7%
New Democrats: 19.8%
So this "Off to a dead heat" headline is misleading. The Liberals have actually increased their lead in English Canada. That, and the NDP has already shed about 4-points in English Canada.
