Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • Tories Knocking On The Door Of Fortress Toronto

    Officially today Dalton McGuinty’s bad couple of days turned into a bad week with a new poll released showing the surging of the very competitive Ontario Tories  in the traditional Liberal stronghold of the 416 area. Earlier in the week a poll was released ranking McGuinty near the bottom in personal popularity among Canadian Premiers.

    Now a party can have one bad poll that’s an aberration,  two is a problem, three has become a trend. If you can combine these latest results with the Nanos poll earlier this month showing the Ontario PCs slightly ahead of the Liberals there’s your trend. Indeed, it has become apparent that Ontarians are hungry for change.

    Nothing happens in a vacuum, in many respects the Ontario P.C.’s and their federal cousins are experiencing a renaissance in areas that have not seen a o a conservative  representative for more than  a generation . Now no elections are won and nothing is finalized yet, but  the general uptick for the Conservatives is a good signal of things to come here in Ontario and perhaps across the country. For sure this is great news for political parties however the conservative movement should not stop advocating  for more conservative ideas and approaches in a “Evermore Bluer Canada”!

  • Working Families Watch

    It’s been nearly a week after the Working Families Coalition took their big close-up by rolling out there first ads on the Oscar telecast in a lead up  to this year’s election. This year the liberal friendly WFC is out to work harder than ever to get the government reelected.
    This time will have at least one website tracking their activities. Working families watch.ca is a website that professes to be nonpartisan and it just wants to get out the word about the WFC. Here’s the list of the websites stated goals.
    From website

    Transparency: Exposing the actual agenda behind the Working Families Coalition (WFC)

    Facts: Documenting how the actions of WFC are directed by active Ontario Liberal Party insiders

    Follow the Money: Showing how most of the money received by the WFC comes from taxpayers in Ontario. The McGuinty
    Government in return provides WFC funders with millions more of your tax dollars and enacts legislation favourable to WFC funders.

    Come Clean: Making Dalton McGuinty come clean and tell the people of Ontario exactly what the funders of the WFC will get for their renewed $5 million investment in third party advertising for the re-election of his government? Dalton – what is the real deal? What did they get last time?

    On the surface this initiative looks great,  although I would suggest for any individual who’s interested to do their own research about the WFC.

  • Conservatives in Majority Territory

     

    A poll was just released today showing that the conservative party  has support from over 43% of the population. What I found telling in the article is the fact that the  Conservatives are gaining support in all key demographic groups.

    This makes the likelihood of a spring election in my eyes more of a possibility. As well the stunning inability of Michael ignatieff to find any type of footing with the public should have staffers in the leader’s office scrambling.

    From National Post

    The new survey shows the Tories have a 16-point lead over the Liberals, led by Michael Ignatieff. The Grits, who have been trying to stoke voter anger over the government’s performance, have the support of 27 per cent of voters, up by two points.

    Jack Layton’s NDP appears to be in political decline as it makes demands to the government over what should be in the budget. The New Democrats would receive 13 per cent of the vote, down by five points.

    Similarly, the Green party, led by Elizabeth May, is in trouble. It would receive five per cent of the vote, down by five points