There are precedents for the extraordinary swoon in popularity the governing Liberals are currently enduring, and have endured — 20 points in the polls in two and a half years, according to data collected by the CBC’s Poll Tracker site — but you have to go back some way to find one.
The Harper government stayed within a comparatively narrow band throughout its time in office, never falling below 30 percent, never rising much above 40. The Chretien government likewise lost only a little altitude over the years, remaining well above 40 percent in most polls until the sponsorships scandal brought them down to earth.
But a government falling this far, this fast, in its first term? To have done so, what is more, without even the aid of a recession — with unemployment and mortgage rates both in single digits, and separatism (in Quebec, at least) quiescent? The only parallel that comes to mind is with the first Mulroney government.
That government, it will be recalled, managed to recover, winning re-election on the strength of its signature free trade initiative and growing public doubts about the opposition leader. But with less than six months to go until the election, it is unclear what similar combination of circumstances can revive the Trudeau Liberals.
Poll Tracker now has them an average of seven points behind the Conservatives. There are reputable pollsters who put them as much as 13 points behind. Worse still are the numbers in the regions, where elections in Canada are won and lost. They are now 10 points back in B.C., where they led by five in the last election, the party’s best showing there since 1968. They trail narrowly in Ontario, a province they won by 10 points last time. Likewise for Atlantic Canada — where they won by nearly 40 points.
Even in Quebec, where as late as the start of this year they looked likely to pick up a dozen seats or more — enough to make up for their projected losses elsewhere — their lead is now down to just 10 points, the same as in 2015. Not so long ago, the worst-case scenario for the party was that it would be reduced to a minority. As things stand, that’s about the best it can hope for.
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Why are we even a part of this anti-western anti-Semitic, pro-Islam and otherwise gigantic fraud calling itself the UN?
The United Nations has produced a report warning that a million species are threatened with extinction.
Here is why you shouldn’t take it seriously.
It’s politics, not science.
We already know its politics. How do we know? They’ve told us!
“We (UN-IPCC) redistribute
de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…”
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international
climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing
to do with environmental policy anymore…”
Dr. Ottmar Endenhofer, IPCC
Co-chair of Working Group 3
November 13th, 2010
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/07/un-species-extinction-report-is-enviro-loon-hysteria/
Ronald McDonalds at the Helm: Leftist Clown Justin Trudeau Follows in the Footsteps of Obama
“Over the last year, I’ve met a growing number of fellow Canadians who have begun to yearn for a Donald to lead the country. They have belatedly recognized that they have a Ronald McDonald at the helm in Justin Trudeau, whose antics may delight children but who is quite incapable in any adult capacity.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ronald-mcdonalds-at-the-helm-leftist-clown-justin-trudeau-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-obama/