Wednesday, January 18, 2006

CTV/G&M Showing Conservative Bias

The Blogging Tories have been strangely quiet on the issue that they were ranting about for weeks that is the apparent CTV Liberal Bias

The occasional complaint arises but for the most part the blog orgy of attacks on CTV and the Globe are now muted.

With the Globe and Mail, formerly pro Liberal, now converted on the road to Damascus into true blue Conservative backers, they and CTV, and their polling company Strategic Council continue to come up with unbelievable polls indicating an overwhelming Conservative majority. Do you think this may be editorially driven? Or is it just wishful thinking.

This poll shows national party support.

Conservatives take 18-point lead, poll shows

The Conservative Party has an 18-point lead over the Liberals in a new poll, giving them 42 per cent support nationally and possibly setting the stage for a major electoral shift. more...

This is a major misleading headline. By their or any current polling.

Strategic Counsel's polling numbers are always suspect when you compare them to other polls. They are off by at least 3% and have been sonsitantly polling higher for the Conservatives than any other poll.


Because they are the CTV/Globe pollsters they make the news. They are the news. But are they accurate and true. I would say not. I prefer CPAC/SES polling it has remained consistant and far more 'true' in numbers than the Strategic Counsel polling.


SES Research

DATE

CON

LIB

NDP

BQ

GRN

MOE

LINK

01/16/06

37

30

18

10

4

±3.1

01/15/06

37

29

18

11

5

±3.1

01/14/06

38

30

17

10

6

±3.1

01/13/06

38

29

16

11

7

±3.1

01/12/06

40

31

14

10

6

±3.1

01/11/06

38

29

16

12

5

±3.1

01/10/06

39

30

16

12

4

±3.1


Ekos

DATE

CON

LIB

NDP

BQ

GRN

MOE

LINK

01/16/06

35.8

29.6

19.4

11.6

3.4

±3.7


At least CTV's long time political reporter Craig Oliver has remained objective in the media orgy to declare a Conservative majority. Well there has to be one spoilsport at every party. Which is why at least one Blogging Tory is upset.

However, Craig Oliver, CTV's chief political correspondent, said Tuesday night that other polls -- including, according to what he's been told, the party's internal polls -- show the Conservatives short of a majority. According to his conversations with party officials, "they expect they could be in for a bit of a dip, as Canadians wake up in shock to find they've supported Harper so significantly," he said.

As I have shown, BCE Inc. the parent company of Bell Canada, and Bell Global Media owners of CTV and the Globe and Media was a big donor to the Harper Leadership campaign.

The sudden cheerleading of CTV's Mike Duffy for all things Harper and Conservative might be influenced by the new polling/ editorial direction of this media congolmerate? Do ya.

Mike Duffy

video: Harper responds to Quebec support

Tue. Jan. 17 2006 6:58 PM ET

Mike Duffy asks Conservative Leader Stephen Harper about French newspaper endorsing him in the 2006 federal election campaign.



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Liberal Attack Ad Wrong

The Liberal Attack ad, Liberal attack ad about Harper and his contributions 0:30 that is still running on TV, and posted on their website, stating that we don't know where Harper got his money from for his leadership race, or who donated to it,is wrong. We do. As I posted here the other day.

Politics from the Heartlands ~ BC, Canada and the USA has posted more on the background of some of Harpers corporate backers. Harper scored big money

Which includes a link between former Encana President Gwyn Morgan and Anderson consulting. Anderson of course was involved in the Enron scandal and years before that was involved in Bernie Cornfelds mutual fund swindle, which operated out of Ontario in the 1960's. Under Mike Harris Anderson returned to Ontario to work as an advisor on contracting out public services, as did Gwyn Morgans other company, Acceture. Both cost taxpayers millions in cost overruns.
Something about a tiger not changing its spots me thinks.

That being said one has to wonder why the Liberals continue to lie about Harpers donors? Rather than expose them. Oh right cause they also donate to the Liberals. Makes it kinda hard to expose them as bad guys, right.

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There is nothing to fear

But fear itself. And a Conservative Majority on January 24.
Harper: Don't fear a majority Be Afraid, be very afraid.

While the Harper says there are checks and balances such as a Liberal
dominated Senate, Tory majority would not have 'absolute power', Harper says
lets not forget the long standing Reform/Alliance/Conservative
promise of Senate Reform.A Senate controlled by Tories?

The Liberals are sinking in the polls "are they the Titanic or the Hindenberg"
Brad Lavigne,NDP strategist said on CPAC last night. Liberals scramble to curb losses

With Liberals rushing to vote Conservative, including those in the blogosphere,
there is only one place progressive, liberal Canadians can make an effective vote,
with the NDP. Which is why Martin is attacking Jack.
Martin attacks Layton for not attacking Harper

Layton spells out Tory no-go zones
Will not let nation's positive accomplishments `be undone'
Board of trade CEO welcomes NDP concern for Toronto



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A Conservative View of First Nations


Fontaine worried by Tory aboriginal agenda

Solberg vows not to honour aboriginal agreement


11 January 2006

OTTAWA – There’s never been any doubt as to how a Conservative government would deal with the Kelowna agreement. We accept the objectives and targets agreed upon at the First Ministers Meeting. However, at the conclusion of the meeting, there was no agreement on where the $5.1 billion would be spent.



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Harper Will Make Canada Masculine Again


Now here is a damn fine reason to vote for the Conservatives cause they ain't no femmy, gay loving, limp wristed, bunch of liberals.

They are MEN, even their women. They are a man's party. They are tough rugged, strong, brave and free. And they are Men. No eye shadow here. Not a Metrosexual amongst them. Tough guys.

Nope these are Cowboys, arm wrestling, beer drinking, average Joe Canadian. And if you elect them, Canada will no longer be a whimp in the world. We will be the bar-room brawlers in North to Alaska. We will rightly take our place amongst the manly nations of the world. Those willing to step up to the plate and squash someone.

Well that's according to American columnist John O'Sullivan in yesterdays Chicago Sun Times. He says;


In 1945 Canada was the world's fourth-largest military power. Its soldiers, sailors and airmen had played a major part on D-Day and in finally defeating Nazi Germany. And its national image was that of a tough, self-reliant, stand-up guy whom you would like on your side in a barroom brawl.

From 1945 to the present the history and changing national image of Canada was brilliantly summed up in the Monty Python song that begins "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK" and gradually develops into "I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars." In other words, not necessarily someone you would like on your side in a barroom brawl.

This new Canada was the child of the Pierre Trudeau and the Canadian Liberal party. As the government in power for most of the postwar period, they remade Canada in their own image: left-liberal in politics, tightly regulated in economics, welfarist in social policy, officially bilingual and multicultural as regards national identity, allied to the United Nations and the Third World in foreign policy, and therefore self-consciously different from (and sometimes even hostile to) the United States.

Above all, Tory leader Harper is not a very good candidate for demonization. He is a cool cerebral politician who has fought a controlled campaign on a distinctly moderate conservative manifesto. Too moderate, some would say, since the Tory manifesto concentrates on cleaning up government after the Liberal scandals, offers only modest tax cuts, is willing to offer the United States a "free vote" in parliament on joining a missile defense system (rather than supporting it outright), and proposes raft after raft of government assistance programs rather than a smaller state

That said, the Tories do want to rebuild Canada's shrunken military, to retain the democratic safeguard of the "notwithstanding" clause, to strengthen border security against terrorists, to advance Canada's interests by better relations with the United States rather than by pointless insults, and in general to revive the more vigorous Canada that existed before Trudeau. Harper's moderation is a recognition that the Canadians have become accustomed to the easy chair of all-encompassing government since then. He is inviting the modern Canadian to take the first small steps back to self-reliance and national pride.

But is there still a lumberjack under all that mascara?

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More Edmonton Strathcona Votes Chat

Well one of the most active Edmonton discussions on the CBC website is Edmonton Strathcona.Edmonton-Strathcona (104 Comments) Edmonton Centre is the other most talked about riding as too be expected.

Lots of chatter as to ousting Jaffer, strategic voting and how NDP signs have swept the riding including in areas that they have not appeared before.

Also Democratic Space has posted Alberta riding predicitions and the only two in play are Edmonton Centre too close to call and Edmonton Strathcona which he predicts will go Conservative but at the lowest rate of any riding in Alberta, by a mere 5%. Which doesn't mean much since none of us believes polls especially prediction ones. I would trust chicken livers read by a shaman as much.

Ok folks push push push that vote. Time to oust Jaffer and it is possible this time around.


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AFL Endorses Linda Duncan

The Alberta Federation of Labour has come out endorsing not just the NDP but Linda Duncan the NDP candidate in Edmonton Strathcona.

Pundits looking in wrong place for candidate most likely to stop Harper from painting Alberta Tory blue

After discussing the Edmoton Centre campaign that the Pundits and national media has focused on Gil McGowan President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, and Edmonton Strathcona resident says;
But that doesn't mean Albertans will send nothing but Conservative MPs to
Ottawa on Election Day. McGowan says NDP candidate Linda Duncan has a real
chance in Edmonton-Strathcona - and he's sending a letter to union members in
the riding encouraging them to help put Duncan over the top.
In the letter, McGowan points out that more than six out of ten voters in
the riding voted against Conservative incumbent Rahim Jaffer in the last
election - giving him the lowest levels of support among all Tories in the
province.
"The majority of Canadians seem determined to punish the Liberals at the
ballot box," writes McGowan in his letter. "That's understandable. But let's
not punish ourselves by voting Conservative - and allowing them to impose
their program-slashing, Medicare-weakening agenda."
As far as arguments about strategic voting go, McGowan says that the idea
the Liberals are in the best position to stop the Tories is now clearly
laughable - especially in Edmonton-Strathcona.
"The wheels have fallen off the Liberal wagon," says McGowan. "The
majority of voters still believe in a vision of a caring Canada - but they
don't believe that the Liberals provide anything more than lip service to
those values."
"So, with all due respect to people like Buzz Hargrove who have been
promoting the Liberals as the least offensive alternative, I say 'buzz off.'
The Conservative are probably going to form the government - so we need MPs
strong enough to stand up to them. In other words, we need MPs like Linda
Duncan, not some faceless Conservative back-bencher with a checkered past.
Nuff said. It's a two way race in Edmonton Strathcona.

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Progressive Principles










I waited all day for it.  In the morning I had seen on TV a desperate Paul Martin speaking in Burnaby.  Knowing that B.C. will be a battle between the Conservatives and NDP, he attacked the NDP.  Well actually as usual he attacked Jack Layton.

Layton Abandons Principle for Politics 
NDP Leader Jack Layton has abandoned his principles during this election campaign in his quest for power, Prime Minister Paul Martin said in a speech today. 

The Liberals are all abut personalizing politics. Not the personal is political mind you, but personality politics. All election Martin has not talked about the Liberals or the Conservatives or the NDP or the BQ but about their leaders. Then he compares them with himself.

His values. He is Canadian. His values are Canadian values. And he uses the royal or editorial we. Well yesterday he did it again and attacked the NDP by attacking Jack. And he claimed to be more progressive than the NDP.

The Prime Minister said only the Liberals will serve the values of “progressive voters.

Are we speaking of the same Liberal party that includes these folks that voted against same sex marriage, but unlike the NDP were not kicked out of the party. Or are wetalkingg about the progressive Liberals that voted with the Conservatives against the Anti-Scab law. Or is the definition of progressive now to include a Liberal Candidate who is a known war monger and apologist for George Bush.

Prime Minister Paul Martin Presents Progressive Vision for Canada

Excuse me. Pardon. Huh. This is the neo conservative Finance Minister who slashed and burned programs and payments in 1995 to deal with the debt and deficit problem. A solution NO different than one imposed by Conservatives Ralph Klein or Mike Harris as premiers.

 Is this the same progressive vision he had when he opposed Same Sex Marriage until it was forced on him by the Supreme Court.

Is this the same progressive vision  Paul Martin  had when embraced Bono when he was annointed leader,and talked about ending world poverty and the debt burden of the Third World.  But couldn't come up with the 1% foreign Aid Bono wanted.  Because he was the guy that had cut it originally. And it wouldn't be prudent to rush into this sort of thing, financially you know.

It took the NDP to get it passed in their budget last summer.

In his attack on the NDP, Martin  assured Canadians that in the fight for environmental sustainability, in the fight for a new deal for our cities, in the fight for public health care and lower tuition, he will never take a pass. But he did take a pass.

None of this was in last springs Liberal budget that the Conservatives liked. Nope. That budget had millions in Corporate Tax Cuts. Very little for cities. Nothing for tuition and nothing for theenvironmentt. It took the NDP budget to put the money into these programs.

Like his company; Canadian Steamship Lines which fly flags ofconveniencee, Paul Martin and the Liberals are progressives when it is convenient. 

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Canada Tories win endorsement, surge in Quebec  The endorsement today by formely Liberal La Presse, is as stunning as the Globe and Mail endorsement the other day. Like the Globe editorial it is not so much an endorsement of Harper or the Conservatives as much as a rejection of the tired old out of touch Liberals. It's a turf the Liberals editorial. Time for a change though as they say   Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The Conservatives are now the qausi Federalist/quasi Nationalist party to beat in Quebec. Why quasi Nationalist you ask, well the Nationalist ADQ has endorsed them. The ADQ is of course right wing, pro privatization of everything standing and pro tax cuts. The ADQ is the Conservative party in Quebec.

Harpers capitulation to the BQ program of Fiscal Imbalance and recognizing Quebec's right to attend international meetings as a Province, something Alberta already does along with having its own embassies, err Provincial offices, abroad, puts the Conservatives squarely in the old Mulroney camp of supporting soft nationalism in Quebec.

Remember Mulroney's Conservatives was an alliance with Quebec nationalists, and endorsed by Rene Levesque and the PQ. His key Quebec cabinet minister Lucien Bouchard went on to found the BQ and then on to become the PQ leader and Premier. Bouchard is now is talking about the need for Quebec to dismantle its social democratic state in favour of a privatized one.

The Liberals are trailing behind the Conservatives in Quebec. In the homeland. Their Trudeau Federalism has never been about Canada it has always been about opposing Quebec Nationalism. The Bankruptcy of Liberal Federalism

But the NDP are making gains in popular voter intention in Quebec as well. They represent a Left Wing alternative to the BQ.

They are having their best showing in Quebec EVER, despite the flip flop Layton made over the Clarity Act early on. His appeal to get Quebec to sign the Constitution has even been picked up by Harper lately. It is the first time the NDP has had a Leader from Quebec. And that is what wins votes there.

While Harper is not from Quebec he has learned the Mulroney lesson well, and his candidates are well known Quebecois, Lieutants All.

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Liberals Opposed To Gay Marriage










A public service of  Blogging Tory Rempelia Prime is a list of Liberals MP's running for re-election that would vote against gay marriage.
Repealing gay marriage, or Liberal MPs we hope will be re-elected
Martin likes to wear the Mantel of 'Progressive', and then the mantel of the Liberal 'Big Tent' but you can't have it both ways. Of course if he got rid of the Not Withstanding Clause he would solve his internal problem of his MP's voting to repeal Same Sex Marriage.

Which makes this  another good reason forreal Progressives to vote  NDP, who will not vote to repeal gay marriarge. Or a woman's right to choose. Or Kyoto. Or the Kelowna Accord. Or the Daycare deal with the provinces. There that should cover it.

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