OTTAWA — A spate of public opinion surveys this autumn has prompted the usual end-of-year parsing of political fortunes and chin-stroking prognostications about a federal election that may still be 10 months in the future.
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are up. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are down. Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats are out of it.
Reader beware.
In fact, a look at months of results from six different pollsters suggests Trudeau’s Liberals remain imperviously buoyant, Harper’s Tories have seen only marginal gains despite a number of issues breaking their way, and NDP fortunes are stalled, notwithstanding Mulcair’s widely lauded parliamentary performance.
In the past week alone, …read more
Source: Macleans
