What is it about the liberals’ mainstream media division and their hideous polls and pollsters? Are these people serious?
Dion’s green plan could ‘shift’ votes to Liberals, poll finds
OTTAWA — Stéphane Dion’s “green shift” has the potential to become a significant vote-getter for the Liberal party if the communications-challenged leader is able to sell a carbon tax to Canadians, a new poll suggests.
The first national poll taken since Mr. Dion unveiled the proposal last Thursday found most Canadians did not know enough yet to form an opinion.
But once the policy was explained to respondents, the Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey found, close to half – 47 per cent – liked the idea, while 39 per cent said they were opposed.
And exactly how did they “explain” it to people? As a way to combat climate change? Or as a way to turn the corner on Canada becoming a full-on socialist state and a massive government control over our lives and social engineering play? I suspected the former.
The survey results showing strong initial support among non-Conservatives came after respondents were read a description of the policy that, while it used fairly neutral language, nevertheless presented the policy as the Liberals would wish.
Respondents were read this passage: “The Liberals are calling their policy A Green Shift. The main elements are putting a tax on carbon or greenhouse-gas emissions, and using the money raised by this tax to reduce income and other taxes, to provide financial support for those less well off and to invest in green technologies. The tax increases will be phased in over four years and will not apply to gasoline. Based on this description, would you say this is a policy you strongly support, support, oppose or strongly oppose.”
Nothing about turning Canada into a socialist state with the big brother government controlling our lives and re-engineering our thinking? Huh.
My eagle-eyed reader Maureen also noted this bit: 62 per cent of The Nation Of Quebec’s Parti Quebecois socialist party supporters were in favor of the Dion plan.
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