I was watching Joe Schlessenger's feature report on peacekeeping in the D.R. Congo on The National last night and I was so struck by it that I turned to wife and said "are we actaully waking up?". The piece was very critical of how peacekeeping has turned in mythology and how the original non-peacekeeping peacekeeping mission was in Congo almost 50 years. Since there was no peace to keep then (as now) the mission ended in failure. The report was so honest about a "scared cow" I though hey now we are getting somewhere. That lasted one sleep.
...A new poll suggests Stephen Harper's post-election surge in popularity has dissipated and dimmed his chances of turning his minority government into a majority. The prime minister's Conservatives lost ground in the country's two crucial battlegrounds, Ontario and Quebec, according to the Decima poll made exclusively available to The Canadian Press. The Decima results arrive like a bucket of ice water amid fevered speculation that Harper will try to engineer the defeat of his government this fall over the softwood lumber deal.
For the record the poll numbers are:
Conservatives: 36%
Liberals: 30%
New Democrats: 17%
To my eye this is right back where we started from.
Comments (4)
One of the reasons for the slip might be …
Canada under Harper has rejoined the geopolitical Anglosphere of the USA, Britain and Australia along with its cousins Japan, India Denmark etc. Realistic decisive talk about the war on terror is unsettling to the utopian yet still powerful MSM.
Moreover Quebec is alligned with utopian socialist failures such as France because that’s where Quebec gets its MSM information. However, just as more and more Canadians have gradually tuned out the CBC as their source of utopian opinion, so will Quebec eventually “get it” that we are at war with Islamofascism. That will take more time and therefore Harper will not “take” Quebec until that happens. The question is, will he gain enough seats in Quebec and in the Maritimes plus a couple in urban Canada to take us to a majority? I still think so.
Posted by nomdenet | July 28, 2006 10:40 AM
Posted on July 28, 2006 10:40
On the other hand, Don Martin of the Calgary Herald (via Neale News) Harper comes out unscathed points out “But nobody votes for a party’s foreign policies. Former prime minister Jean Chretien stumbled through the Middle East in 2000, irritating Israelis and Arabs with equal aplomb, and went to the polls seven months later to no discernible backlash from ethnic communities.”
Yes, these polls are discouraging, but lets not become “nervous nellies”. I want to see the fallout from the further divisions that this conflict will bring out within the Liberals (btw, where’s Iggy on all this ? How long can he hide behind his ailing mother in Hungary ?) And don’t understimate the ability of the united NDP to go after the anti-Harper votes here. There’s a heck of a lot of stuff to play out here before the next election !
Posted by Calgary Junkie | July 28, 2006 10:50 AM
Posted on July 28, 2006 10:50
I am waiting for SES. Still, it can’t be good seeing the CPC go down in Quebec and Ontario. 36% won’t do much for you if you get 100% in Alberta but slide in Quebec and Ontario.
Posted by Greg | July 28, 2006 10:56 AM
Posted on July 28, 2006 10:56
It wasn’t much of a post-election surge anyway.
Posted by ace | July 28, 2006 3:07 PM
Posted on July 28, 2006 15:07