Federal Liberals have lost ground to the Conservatives, new poll suggests GlobePolitics
A new poll conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press suggests the governing federal Liberals have lost ground to the Conservatives over the past month.
Overall, 31 per cent of respondents polled after the federal budget was released Tuesday said they would vote for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals if an election were held now, a decline of about three percentage points from February. That compared with 37 per cent who said they would back the Conservatives under leader Andrew Scheer, a one-point increase from February, while 14 per cent said they would vote NDP and 10 per cent the Greens.Scheer also jumped ahead of Trudeau on the question of who would make a better prime minister as the Tory leader got the backing of 25 per cent of respondents compared with 24 per cent for Trudeau, who has been struggling to contain damage from the SNC-Lavalin affair.
As for the budget, which the Liberals are hoping will help turn the page on SNC-Lavalin, 12 per cent of respondents said it was good and 19 per cent that it was bad, but 39 per cent said they didn’t really know about it. Leger’s internet-based survey, which cannot be assigned a margin of error because online polls are not considered random samples, was conducted March 19 and 20 using computer-assisted web-interviewing technology and heard from 1,529 Canadians who are eligible to vote and were recruited from the firm’s online panel.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
New Leger polls suggests federal Liberals lagging ConservativesA new poll conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press suggests the governing federal Liberals have lost ground to the Conservatives over the past month.
Read more »
New Leger poll suggests federal Liberals lagging ConservativesA new poll conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press suggests the governing federal Liberals have lost ground to the Conservatives over the past month.
Read more »
Federal budget may be delayed by Conservatives protesting Liberal decision to end SNC probeThe budget could be delayed for at least half an hour
Read more »
Federal budget suggests Liberals may help 'free the beer,' wineAdvocates of removing trade barriers that prevent citizens from moving more than small amounts of alcohol across provincial borders say they are cautiously optimistic about a line in Tuesday’s federal budget.
Read more »
Federal budget 2019: Liberals unveil $23-billion in new spending aimed at seniors and young CanadiansPre-election budget makes housing and skills training a top priority, but offers no clear path to balancing the books
Read more »
Conservatives want balanced budget ‘at any cost,’ Morneau says, hoping voters prefer Liberals’ deficit-spending visionWith an election looming, the Liberals’ spending path places them in stark contrast with the Conservatives, who have called on the government to rein in spending
Read more »
Liberals block Conservatives' attempt to delay budget over Wilson-Raybould 'gag order'The Liberals have foiled a Conservative plan to delay Tuesday’s budget by forcing up to 40 hours of votes in the House of Commons to protest what the Tories say is a “gag order” on former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.
Read more »
Conservatives worry Liberals’ budget announcements intended to distract public from SNC-Lavalin‘We expect that the prime minister will try to drown out this scandal with billions of dollars of irresponsible spending,’ Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre told reporters
Read more »
Federal budget 2019: On Pharmacare, the Liberals offer big questions and small investmentsWhat does a ‘comprehensive, evidence-based national formulary’ really mean? After the 2019 budget, that remains unclear
Read more »