Jack Aubry of CanWest News Service is reporting in Canwest papers (subscription required) that most Canadians, according to a state-funded poll, rate the Liberals’ performance as ‘bad’.
Sounds like a recipe for a Liberal Party election win if history is any indication.
But here’s a sentence that caught my eye:
Hali Gernon, a spokeswoman for the Privy Council Office, said the government poll cost $23,000 and was conducted to prepare for last fall’s speech from the throne to open the new Parliament.
They aren’t even embarrassed to admit that the government paid for a poll with our tax dollars to find out how to sound like they’re giving the people what the people want. This isn’t a government that leads, but one which acts or pretends to act according to polls.
We should have saved ourselves the trouble and hired a polling company to run the nation.
OTTAWA – With the sponsorship scandal continuing to wreak political damage this spring, the Liberal government is being judged harshly by the majority of Canadians on issues of honesty, openness and general accountability for public spending, a recently released government poll reveals.
The majority of those surveyed bluntly ranked the federal government’s overall performance as “bad” with almost half—49%—saying it is failing to listen to ordinary Canadians.
The poll is being released as speculation grows about the possibility of a snap election forced by opposition parties in April over “explosive” testimony being heard at closed-door hearings of the Gomery Commission.
The government received its most scathing evaluation when participants were asked about accountability and public spending. Sixty-two per cent said the government’s performance was “bad” when it came to “being accountable to citizens for public spending” while only 14% said it was “good” and 22% responded “neither.”
A full 28% rated the government’s performance “terrible”—the lowest rating—in this area. The finding is consistent with another government poll last fall that found two out of three Canadians believed the Liberals were throwing around far too much cash and “lost control of its spending.”
[…] But that was as positive as respondents got in the poll, as 44% said the government was “bad” at maintaining high ethical standards while only 29% said they were “good.” The remaining quarter said “neither.”
But of course how it is that they will respond to the polling results is unclear.
Apparently, just thirty-seven per cent said the government’s performance was “good” in leading the country in a direction the poll participants agreed with.
That’s ironic and just plain funny. So the throne speech seems to magically resond to exactly what the people want—My, the liberals are so appealing! But the government’s actual performance does not.
The Liberals are slimy used-car salesmen.
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