This, according to a story in the Montreal Gazette this morning.
Prime Minister Paul Martin could be in trouble in his own Montreal riding of LaSalle- Emard, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe suggested yesterday.
Speaking to reporters during a campaign stop to support Bloc candidate May Chiu, Duceppe said the Bloc’s internal polling shows the riding – which Martin has won handily in the last few elections – has turned into a tight race.
“If you look at the polls, it seems there are developments there. I think it is probably a three-way race.”
Liberal spokesperson Ken Polk dismissed Duceppe’s assessment: “That’s ridiculous.”
Polk refused, though, to reveal what Liberal polling numbers are showing.
But Duceppe isn’t the only one whose tracking shows that the race in LaSalle-Emard might be much closer than people had presumed. Conservative candidate Georges Bastien said his polling is showing similar results.
“It is exactly neck and neck.”
Bastien said the sands started to shift after Christmas, and during the past few weeks he has begun to pick up the support of disaffected federalists. While a few of them are moving to the Bloc, many more are coming to the Conservatives, he said.
Bastien said federalist voters don’t seem to be affected by the prospect that Martin might no longer be prime minister, saying if that were the case he would be seeing even more support moving to his party.
But Bastien said the situation is very volatile at the moment and any one of the three candidates could win.
While polling by the Bloc and the Conservatives shows a tight race, Bastien said the Liberals don’t appear to be worried.
“We’re not seeing the Liberals work as much. I have the impression they think they will slip between me and the Bloc.”
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