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Harper widens leadership advantage over Ignatieff: Nanos Poll (Completed September 11th) (2009-09-14)

• I'd like to know what Harper's vision is. He's never spoken of it except when he was with the NCC. As our Prime Minister he should be informing us of where...
• That's not a vision for this country. When will Stephen Harper enlighten us with his vision for the country, 1 year from now, 5, 10? He never has. The mos...
• Chretien is no longer Prime Minister. Paul Martin is no longer Prime Minister. They have nothing to do with the question and I'm tired of listening to Cons...
• elf, haven't you figured out by now that, to a Harper cheerleader, nothing he does is wrong, everything is justifiable and winning at any cost is the name of...

Nanos National Poll - Canadians' views on minority governments and Harper's re-election a mixed bag (2009-08-22)

• The Liberals DO seem to have their house in order - now. If only we knew what that house stood for. I'd like to have some sense of what they would do if the...
• Different leader, different viewpoint. Ignatief leading the Liberals isn't necessarily close to what Chretien would have done, or Martin for that matter. Sa...
• Bernie, I agree with you about Dion. He wasn't a politician first like Harper and Ignatieff; I gues that's why he was so pummelled by the Harper crew. It w...
• I'm not ok with Harper but, so far, I'm not ok with Ignatieff either. I haven't heard him speak out about what he'd do or what he'd reverse. If he leaves e...
• hollinm, I think you're right about Harper sticking around. He has shown he'd go to any length to retain his position. Of course, if the Liberals win Harper...
• It's not up to me to project what Ignatieff stands for and what he would do. It is up to him to let us know and he hasn't done that yet. Once he does, then...
• Subscribing to the Harper spin I see. One thing I do like about Ignatieff is his cool head. I think it will be harder to corner him than you think. All ...
• hollinm, At least Ignatieff saw the error of supporting Bush's invasion of Iraq and publically said so. Harper supported Bush and has stuck to his guns. Di...
• No, I'm tired of this government and their supporters always passing the buck and not taking responsibility for the decisions that they made. Harper is the ...
• Bloodsport, Harper won't resign unless he loses the next election. Harper has gone to extraordinary lengths to stay in power, dirty, cowardly lengths. And,...
• hollinm, I guess the new Conservative way is to rewrite history. I'm not saying the combat role was a mistake and I think we all know that even if we had ke...
• Wrong on all counts. Is it stardust or do the Conservatives deliberately play switch and bait with all things? By the way -- I'm green.
• "That was the decision of the GG not his." See what I mean? Always the blame goes to someone else. Do the Conservatives not take responsibility for anythi...
• Hollinm, there are principles and ethics at stake here - mine. I know these two attributes seem passe in our political arena but there are some of us that w...
• Hollinm, there are principles and ethics at stake here - mine. I know these two attributes seem passe in our political arena but there are some of us that w...
• Harper is a master at smoke and mirrors. He says one thing whilst doing another, hoping you won't notice; he justifies the flip flopping always blaming some...
• There needs to be an all party committee, equally represented, to ensure appointments (including Senate appointments) are done on merit not on being a party ...
• I wish you (and the former poster) were right but Harper has spent a lot of mean and deviousness to keep himself in the power position. I don't think that h...

Nanos National Poll - Economy slides as an issue of concern - no political dividend for Conservatives, yet. (2009-08-10)

• I'm sorry to see good honest posters gone. But that's what the Harper people do - they employ the same slimy, dirty, dishonest tactics that Harper has repea...
• That's all Harper seems to be: photo-ops and smoke and mirrors. Put that together with his vindictive, bullying and gutter ways and we have the poorest exc...
• Peggy, I urge you for your own integrity to get facts and engage a brain before you post. One day you will look back at this sad period in our history and b...

Nanos National Poll - Strengths and Weaknesses of the Liberal Party (2009-07-03)

• I can't remember Harper having a formal non-election platform while he was in opposition. The CPC and followers are just using the no platform as a talking p...
• The video doesn't really show Harper putting the host in his pocket. But it doesn't show that he put his hand up to his mouth at any time either. Regardles...
• If Ignatieff would come out with convictions, with honesty, with transparency and vow, a vow not to be broken, to reform Parliament (to take power out of the...
• Harper says today that whoever reported that he put communion bread in his pocket brings a "low moment" to journalism. This from a Prime Minister who has br...
• Just a couple of points that we shouldn't be forgetting: Harper made the decision to use partisan attacks in an international setting. It wasn't the time n...
• The Conservative fortunes always rise when the House isn't sitting and they are not in the spotlight on a regular basis. I wouldn't put too much stock in an...
• Harper = as bad as any of the aforementioned. Income trusts - how many people did that hurt? Transparency, accountability ... Canada's "new" government doi...
• Tom Flanagan has spoken many times of incremental conservatism as a means, as has Harper. And you're right - it is not a path I want to go down and a path, ...
• I think Harper's a hanger-on. Look at the unprecedented extraordinary lengths he went to in December to hold on to power. He listens only to himself; his a...
• If Harper would quit playing, as my Grandfather would say, silly buggers with us he'd be much better off. I wonder if he'll only realize that once he's out ...
• And yet the latest Harris Decima poll says that people are getting tired of minority governments and a Liberal majority (or minority) would be their preferen...
• R.O.D. I agree that there needs to be an election this fall, but it has to be legit. It can't be an election for elections sake. I think the electorate wou...
• I guess since Harper called it a "technical" recession this technical recovery should balance things out.
• With the pipsqueak Poiliviere just saying there is no way the Conservatives will support Ignatieff's EI proposals, it looks like Harper is maneuvering for an...
• First off these findings don't surprise me. There is nobody as mule minded as a staunch Conservative. It's ironic that we in the west always belly-ache abou...
• Ignatieff might not have a choice if that's the card Harper wants to play first thing in the fall. Either that or sit back and look Dionish. He can't affor...
• Most non-CPC supporters have always known Harper is a neo-con of the American Republican stripe. Anyone who reads this book, in my opinion, already knows th...
• It all depends on Harper. Will he co-operate with the majority or will he continue governing like he has that majority? Will he continue to ram away at the ...
• Is a Liberal lie worse than a Conservative lie? Do you take Harper to task for the lies he has told?
• Ah yes, Chretien's big lie. Again - do you hold Harper accountable for his lies? Do you publicly take him to task on his lies? If you don't you have no gro...
• Nice lob, but I have, yes. I say he needs to let people know what he stands for. All you had to do to find that out was read some of my comments. Now, have...
• No, as far as I know Ignatieff never wrote about adding Canada as the 51st state. I did read Harper's own words about wanting to scrap the Canada Health Act...
• No, Harper has written what he would like to do. That he now has taken a (on the surface?) different approach has many lulled into believing what they see. ...
• I hope Liberal voters do read Ignatieff's work before they vote for him. I hope Conservative supporters read Harper's work before they vote for him too. No...
• I feel quite free to criticize Ignatieff since I am not a Liberal. Ditto Harper and Layton. Out of the three of them I find Harper the most distasteful. H...
• Really, that's the Liberal way? Wasn't it Harper who fired Linda Keen because she didn't toe the party line? Isn't it Harper who muzzles his MPs and govern...
• Look. quit prevaricating. It is a childish game. I asked you a question and you refuse to answer. If you don't want to answer thats fine, be honest about ...
• Really? That's funny coming from you as you accuse others of partisanship yet refuse to answer even a simple question probably due to same. You generalize ...
• You may be right about Kevin Page. Will you admit I am right about cowardly firings in the middle of the night? How about restrictions on MPs and other gov...
• Aha, now we're getting somewhere! All party's MPs have to toe the line to a certain extent but Harper has been the most extreme. Since he doesn't have much...
• Can't/won't answer the question? Because you don't count Harper's lies as significant? Important? What? I think you're way too hung up over Ignatieff a...
• Harper wanted her to go through the PMO before she released anything. All her independent audits, her reports, her press releases vetted before going public...
• That's ok syld, I didn't really expect an answer. Unfortunately Harper has set a tone with his party and his supporters to do exactly what westerner has don...
• The only two things I like about Ignatieff is: 1) he is not Harper, and 2) He doesn't roll in the slime like Harper - he has some class. I don't like it at...
• Lieberal? How grown up is that? Wow.
• Sorry, there is nothing dirtier than a Harper Conservative. He has set the tone and unfortunately it is being mimicked by not only his caucus but by his sup...
• You can compare years of sleaze and malicious sliming of people and peoples with one alleged act? That in itself says more than you can imagine.
• Keep on Harpering. Someday you might become honest enough to look more objectively at this period in time.
• Before I get too disgusted with your behaviour I would like to point out that unquestioning cheerleading is not good for democracy. Too much power with litt...
• Katrina, that is what Harper does. He makes promises with the big expensive announcement somewhere and then quietly changes or cancels the promise, usually ...
• I am a supporter of the appointed Senate but I am a strong opponent of a partisan Senate, which Harper, being the partisan of all partisans, will stack with ...
• Peggy No one in our history has had a mud slinging fest, a down and dirty slime fest as Harper's Conservatives. No one in our history has pledged, not to j...
• The guns on the street ad was never released for broadcast. The only place you saw it was on newscasts. And no party ever, even with the Conservatives maki...
• Harper authorized an audit of the previous Liberal government's polling spending hoping to embarrass them. What he found out was that his (Harper's) governm...
• And yet the good residents of Nova Scotia voted him back in last election. And they will again next election.
• In fact, Harper's (non) action in the immigration file is almost negligently criminal. Due to attrition there are a slew of empty positions in the Departmen...

New Nanos National Ballot - Impressions of Harper and Ignatieff measured (2009-06-27)

• Harper can look statesmanlike, even if he is more comfortable rolling in the muck and mire. He will come through as the blue sweater guy when people are foc...
• Harper, campaigning on our dime again this summer. I wonder how many billions of dollars of promises he will make in the next couple months. There really s...
• You need to follow more than this one instance of Jane Tabor's reporting history. She is firmly on the blue side and has been for years. Every once in a wh...
• Informed1, I think the bias you see is in the eyes of the beholder. Too many Harper supporters see a bias if the media in question isn't falling all over th...
• Harper doesn't come across to the average Joe as someone who understands everyday, ordinary life. He, especially in unguarded moments, comes across as an el...
• Ignatieff has looked weak since the budget. He put the Harper government on probation? It was a joke. And the more he backs down the stronger arm Harper w...
• hollinm, Harper isn't a Conservative. He uses the name, but I think that's where it ends. Harper is a Reformer. Harper is a political whore inasmuch as he...
• hollimn, holy smoley - are we in grade 3? Lizard-like tongue? Wow, just wow. Debate with a vapid worshiper doesn't work. Debate only works between people...
• You said: after the names I see Harper being called then its fair play to criticize the other leader as well. See, that's the whole CPC philosophy. Blame ...
• Informed1, I didn't really suggest anything about Ignatieff because I've only made 5 or 6 posts since joining. Are you suggesting I have to write a whole cr...
• All parties are guilty of milking any advantage they may have, some do it responsibly and some do it irresponsibly. Then there is Harper who does it dirtier...
• Ignatieff looks strong only in comparison to Dion. Ignatieff needs to be prepared to call Harper's bluffs and rein Harper's policies in, for real, when it w...
• Harper started his sleaze with telling everyone that Paul Martin supported child porn. He hasn't quit and it's getting worse. He just can't help himself fr...
• When Harper became Prime Minister he replaced all the portraits (photos?) of Conservative Leaders and Prime Ministers in the CPC caucus room with pictures of...
• Constitutionally a Prime Minister has the right to request of the Governor General a prorogation of Parliament at any time. But just because he has the righ...
• Oh, so many leading questions with which to pigeon hole me. I thought you would have enough information with the last post to label me and put me in which-e...
• I'm going to try to answer some of your questions: Political advantage - I don't think you should look at it that way. Finding a new way is not the same t...
• You said :So Harper is a coward for asking the GG to porogue vs allow the Coalition to divide the country because 62% did not vote for the CPC." But I didn'...
• Oh the manipulations of intent, the written and spoken word and then placing the blame elsewhere. Unfortunately your biases were all too noticeable from the...
• I think you are either in denial or are blind to your own cheerleading. You don't actually see the hypocrisy in your own answers/statements? You can't see ...