Unbelievable but oh-so-Canadian: Liberal media firms CTV and Globe and Mail, both owned by liberals (Bell Globemedia) hires liberal polling firm to do poll. Answer don’t gel. Doesn’t help Liberals. So polling firms suggests answers. Good answers! None bad. Result? Good answers! Shocka.
When asked: What is the most notable achievement of the minority government?, approximately 60 per cent of those polled could not identify any notable achievements.
So you’d think they’ leave it there.
But no.
Respondents were then given a list of possible achievements: the health care accord to increase federal spending; same sex marriage legislation; tsunami relief effort; agreements with provinces for federal funding of day care; offshore oil deal with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia; and the increase in social spending through the budget.
Ah. Then suddenly the citizen is aware of things they accomplished.
Note that “increase in social spending through the budget” is seen as an “achievement”. In fact, I find it risible that any of those things with the possible exception of the tsunami relief—in which the government made a mockery of itself—could possibly be seen as “achievements”. But that’s how liberals think.
UPDATE:
Reader “Hedplug” (here’s your hat tip!) read the Globe and Mail article on the same poll, catching their liberal bias and slight of hand and manipulation.
Did you see this on the Globe’s website? The Headline reads “Majority Want Harper Replaced, Poll Shows”.
But then in the article the Managing Pollster points out “Clearly, Harper’s numbers have moved starkly to the negative,” said Tim Woolstencroft, managing partner with the company. “And Martin’s looking like his negatives are starting to soften, although it’s important to note that they’re no different than Harper’s.”
‘Important to note that they’re no different than Harper’s.’ Why didn’t the headline read ‘Martin No Longer Favored By Majority’ or ‘Prime Minister Maintains Mandate Without Support’, ‘If 52% of the Polled Want PM Replaced, Why Is He Still In Power?’
Pathetic Liberal journalism and Polling at their best again.
Nobody forced them to make the headline a negative for Harper. They chose to. The real salient point for Canadians is the fact that the leader of our nation is so totally unpopular—yet they focus on Harper. Good work liberals!
And good work (seriously) to reader Hedplug for noticing this hideous liberal media bias.
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