Tory Redux - Part 89

Conservatives Still Out in Front

In the latest Nanos daily tracking poll the Tories lead by nearly 10 points over their nearest rivals the Liberals. More importantly the Conservatives are commandingly out in front in the key battleground of Ontario’s Rust Belt. If this trend keeps up through the campaign we might even see university towns like Guelph turn Tory blue.

From Nanos

Canada (n=939 committed voters)
Conservative 38.4% (-0.2)
Liberal 28.7% (+1.1 )
NDP 19.6% (-0.3)
Bloc Quebecois 9.1% (-1.0 )
Green 4.1% (+0.3)
Undecided 21.7% (-0.3)

Taxpayers Still On the Hook for Eco-fees

From CTV

Ontario taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars for shutting down the eco fee program introduced last July and then quickly cancelled, Environment Minister John Wilkinson confirmed Monday.

The province expected it would cost $8 million a year to keep six key items targeted by the eco fees — fire extinguishers, syringes, medications, rechargeable batteries, products with mercury and compact fluorescent light bulbs — out of landfills.

However, Stewardship Ontario, the agency that runs the blue box program and was responsible for the eco fees, is also looking to recover stranded costs from eco fees that it estimates at $10 million.

This is just another bad liberal tax that has become a poisoned chalice for the government.

Family Tax Cut

Prime Minister Harper announced as his first official campaign pledge a tax cut for families that further reduces the burden on Canadians However this tax cut won’t come in to effect until the Tories balance the books. Again the prime minister is showing that he is the prudent and responsible choice that we can trust.

Here’s an article on how all the parties are trying to appeal to families in this election

Landmark Report

Landmark Report.com is what it advertises a showcase for the next generation of media. It is the brainchild of conservative activist and blogger Andrew Lawton Knowing his background from the successful blog strictly right.com this makes me enthusiastic to see what this project turns into. Furthermore the basic layout of the website is clean and very easy to navigate. It’s still early days but this website has a lot of potential.
Here’s a little taste of the kind of things you can find at Landmark Report

From Andrew Lawton
Instead of manufacturing controversy, the Liberal Party of Canada needs to be more concerned about the fact that consistently they are ranking behind the always-a-failure New Democratic Party in polls, and that their leader is hemorrhaging support from within his own party,

The Coalition Still Might Be Alive

David McGuinty reignited the possibility of the liberals even if they lose forming a coalition with the other parties after the election. Obviously the liberals have no problem with possibly signing a pact with socialists and separatists even if Canadians don’t want it. The only thing that is clear so far as this election has been driven by one thing and one thing only opportunism.

To get a fuller picture go to this great post byTrusty Tory.