According to a poll conducted by the corrupt Liberals themselves, the bottom is literally falling out from under the corrupt Liberal Party of Canada in terms of the voters’ impression of them—and remember that most Canadians voted liberal-left last time.
And this is before we even know a fraction of the details of the corruption the Liberals were involved in; and before Canadians have gained an realization of the implications and of the morass of left-wing (un-)principles and (non-)values in which the socialist liberals are currently engaged for “their Canada” (as their treasonous election slogan went).
The poll results were obtained by Canadian Press through an Access to Information request.
The percentage of people who said the Liberals were doing a poor job jumped to 46 per cent from 33 per cent just under a year ago. While impressive (in the negative) it makes me wonder if one of the blacked-out and unreported questions wasn’t “And who thinks they are doing an absolutely HORRIBLE job?”
The percentage of people who said they had “high trust” in the federal government dropped to 25 per cent in the autumn of 2004 from 32 per cent before release of the auditor general’s report into the “sponsorgate” sponsorship corruption scandal. In the poll, trust levels fell in each region of the country. I imagine more people have “high trust” in Wal*Mart than they do their own Liberal government, which speaks volumes for the leadership of this country. And gee hey, as an outsider, wouldn’t you be dying to invest billions into this country knowing these stats?
Naturally the inquiry into the corruption scandal is still ongoing and won’t be completed until next fall, and there are numerous police (criminal) investigations going on right this minute into possible wide-ranging criminal activity within the Liberal Party.
By autumn 2004, 41 per cent of Canadians felt the government was doing a poor job, still eight percentage points higher than before the release of [Auditor General Sheila] Fraser’s report.
The percentage of Canadians who said the government was doing a good job fell to 23 per cent from 27 per cent the previous winter.
The most precipitous drops provincially were in Quebec and Alberta – slides of 10 per cent and 13 per cent respectively during the winter-to-fall period.
While just 12 per cent of Albertans surveyed felt the federal government was doing a good job, 53 per cent said the provincial Conservative administration of Ralph Klein was performing well.
Behiels [Michael Behiels, a history professor at the University of Ottawa] sees the numbers as part of a long-term erosion of the federal government’s credibility in public eyes, in part because of fierce criticism from the Reform and Alliance parties, as well as the Bloc Quebecois.
“This has been coming for many, many years, I would say since the Mulroney administration, when the wheels started falling off.”
Asked how well the federal government was doing at “being open and honest,” 17 per cent of those surveyed said last fall that it was faring well, compared with 21 per cent the previous winter.
Behiels believes voters are generally less deferential towards government than they used to be, more in line with attitudes in the United States.
“Perhaps this is an ongoing process of more and more Americanization of the Canadian political culture,” he said. “Who knows where this will go?”
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