Conservative fails finally coming home to roost?

 The National Post is reporting an 11 point drop in the government's popularity, according to EKOS polling. Perhaps people are noticing the incompetence of "Canada's New Government".


Just to remind you of the many sleazy and clumsy actions of Stephen Harper's government,  I have most of them covered in previous posts- look under 'Conservative party' in my tags.
here is a list posted in the Comments section of The Globe and Mail:

Chuck Cadman
Chalk River
Income Trust
Attempted to censor media coverage of our war dead coming home
Lying to Canadians about the Afghan War
Breaking his own election laws
Violation of human rights
Lying to Canadian during said election about the economy
Prorogation (twice)
Using Haiti as his personal photo-op (and his wife)
Contempt of Parliament
Billion dollar plus slush fund called the G20
1.7 million for the PMO
Killing the Census
F-35s when we are in HUGE debt
And for all you loving CONS out there...cutting the GST to 5% for appearances sake.
the attempt to hide the body of our first female casualty coming home from Afghanistan….Harper “stands behind our troops”? Only when there is a photo op.
-"Derringer" commenting on Stockwell Day's argument for spending 5Billion on new prisons for "unreported Crimes" posted in the Globe and Mail online

Harper & Quebec; The Tories as Sovereignists

Stephen Harper is courting the seperatist vote in Quebec, much the way Brian Mulroney did before him. In that case, the short term benefit to the Conservatives paved the way to the 1995 Sovereignty referendum, and gave birth to the Bloq Quebecois in the federal Parliament.

This strategy hasn't received much coverage in the English press, so I've included a link to a French language version of the story.

The ruthlessness with which Stephen Harper pursues power is almost breath taking. It is a pity that much of the electorate equates ruthlessness with leadership. The hypocrisy inherent in Harper's courting the sovereignists while criticising the Liberal and Green party's attempts at bi-partisanship hasn't yet come back to haunt the Tories. Perhaps this attempt at a Bloquiste - Tory pact would appear less palatable if the rest of Canada was more aware of it. Certainly the cynicism of Stephen Harper in assuming Canadians wont notice what he's doing speaks to a ruthlessness that seems at odds with announced goals of transparency, and fair government.

Perhaps Canadians might be less enamoured with the Conservative party if they realised the Tory strategy assumes Canadians lack the brains to notice Stephen Harper, when he talks to them at all, talks out of both sides of his mouth.