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Canada set to choose leaders
Azerbaijan News.Net
Monday 13th October, 2008
Canada will go to polls Tuesday, with opinion polls predicting the ruling Conservative Party may not get a majority in parliament.
The ruling party held 127 seats in the outgoing 308-member House of Commons.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the election, the third in four years, last month, saying the combined opposition, the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois, were not letting him govern as they held the majority in the House of Commons.
The latest opinion polls show the prime minister's party ahead of the Liberal Party and the Left-leaning NDP by a huge margin, but still short of the numbers which can give it the majority in parliament.
The ruling party, which was expected to garner more seats in French-speaking Quebec this time, now seems to be falling behind the regional Bloc Quebecois.
While 35 percent Canadians favour the Conservative Party, 25 percent support the Liberal Party, 18 percent NDP and 11 percent the Green Party which had no MP in the dissolved parliament.
Since Canada is the first G7 country going to the polls amid the global economic meltdown, the economy is the foremost issue in the election.
Canadians trust the prime minister on the economy as he has promised to cut taxes to boost the economy, but they, mostly urban voters except in conservative Alberta, don't like his right-wing agenda.
The Liberal Party has failed to revive itself under professor-turned-politician Stephane Dion as he lacks the charisma of his predecessors.
Dion's decision to impose carbon tax to cut greenhouse gases has not gone down well with voters and the party is unlikely to surpass its tally of 95 in the outgoing parliament.
In fact, the Left-leaning NDP, under Jack Layton, is likely to cut into the Liberal Party vote bank this time.
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Independent
10-13-08, 07:33 PM |
Canada set to choose leaders
Harper is the ONLY one who can rescue Canada through BAD times.
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slapshot
10-13-08, 11:23 PM |
Good story
Good story/synopsis on the Canadian election. Much better than I’m reading in some Canadian newspapers.
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EKLABYA
10-14-08, 03:59 AM |
HIHIHIHIHIHI
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Anonymous
10-13-08, 09:14 PM |
Lemme guess Harper is the marxist?
He must be if Independent is stumping for them!
Get a clue loser!
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richie rich
10-14-08, 09:25 PM |
correction
The article states the Green Party had no MP in the House of Commons at the time Canada’s parliament was dissolved. This is incorrect. The Greens had one MP at the time of dissolution. See the following article.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/30/green-party.html?ref=rss
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