Winning means something. Somebody needs to slip the word to the Liberals. And the media. (Excuse the redundancy.)
Survey finds little desire to return to polls
Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, April 03, 2006OTTAWA—Four out of five Canadians expect opposition parties to give Prime Minister Stephen Harper some breathing room over the next year to implement his Conservative agenda, a new poll shows.
The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted from March 28 to 30 for CanWest News Service and Global National, found little public appetite for an election.
Only six per cent of respondents wanted the new Conservative minority government to be defeated “as soon as possible,” while 81 per cent said they wanted it to survive for at least a year.
This means Harper will have a “pretty strong hand” to deliver on his Top 5 priorities when the House of Commons opens for business this week, said Ipsos Reid president Darrell Bricker. “This doesn’t mean that (the Conservatives) have carte blanche,” Bricker said. “What it means is that the public is prepared to see them implement the agenda as they understand it.”
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