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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   No really . . . .  This is from the Toronto Sun Saturday, January 25, 2014 :   
      
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   To be sure, the Tories have slipped significantly in the polls since   
   last October, according to Abacus Data. This is very likely the result   
   of weeks of withering criticism (much of it justified) of Harper and the   
   Tories over the Senate spending scandal. Daily in Parliament before   
   Christmas it seemed there were new revelations about who knew what, when   
   about the expense accounts of Sen. Mike Duffy and others – and who tried   
   to cover it up.   
      
   So from then until now – just three months – Harper and his party have   
   fallen from 33% popular support among committed voters to 28% today, a   
   decline of five percentage points.  That’s a big drop in a short time.   
      
   But what may be the most surprising in the Abacus numbers (gathered in a   
   poll of nearly 2,000 Canadians conducted between Jan. 14 and 18), is   
   that in all that time the Liberals under Justin Trudeau have risen just   
   one percentage point.   The Tory drop has been to the benefit of the NDP   
   and Greens, both of whom gained two percentage points at the   
   government’s expense.   
      
   This is as it should be, at least for the NDP.   Their leader, Thomas   
   Mulcair, was devastatingly good in question period in the fall session.   
      Like the very best Crown prosecutor, Angry Tom was able to piece   
   together e-mails and evidence released by the RCMP during their Duffy   
   investigations and – often on his feet – craft the pieces into damaging   
   inquiries of the PM and his former staffers.   
      
   Not so Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. His question period forays into   
   Senate spending were disjointed to the point of being incoherent.   
   Eventually he had to remove himself from the Commons’ daily grilling   
   sessions and let Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale take over the   
   heavy lifting.   
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