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   From: Paula@nyet.ca   
      
   Look at the heading in this article:   
      
   Half (48%) of Canadians Believe Conservative Majority Government is Working   
   Well (Up 8 Points)   
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   With Election Year Looming, Most (71%) Conservative Voters Think Prime Minister   
   Harper Should Remain as Leader for as Long as he is Winning Elections   
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   That's the header on an article from Ipsos Ca pollster . . .   
      
   Now take a look at the actual figures for who thinks the "Conservative   
   Government is Working Well" :   
      
   	Only 14% strongly agree with that statement.   
   	34% say they 'somewhat'  agree with that statement.   
   	Total: 48%   
      
   	Cute, eh?   
      
   	Now take a look at the numbers of those polled who disagree with that   
   statement.   
   	23% strongly disagree;   
   	29% somewhat disagree.   
   	Total:  52%   
      
   Now look at the heading of the article again.   
      
   Only stupid people would have read the header and not read the actual numbers   
   behind the BS implication of the header.   
      
   Greg Carr, you were one of them.   
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   IPSOS:   
   Half (48%) of Canadians Believe Conservative Majority Government is Working   
   Well (Up 8 Points)   
   With Election Year Looming, Most (71%) Conservative Voters Think Prime Minister   
   Harper Should Remain as Leader for as Long as he is Winning Elections   
      
   Tuesday, December 23, 2014   
      
   Toronto, ON – As the political year draws to a close, one half (48%) of   
   Canadians ‘agree’ (14% strongly/34% somewhat) that ‘overall, the   
   Conservative   
   majority government in Ottawa is working well’ for Canada, up 8 points since   
   the end of 2013, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of   
   Global News. While the other half (52%) of Canadians ‘disagree’ (23%   
   strongly/29% somewhat) that the government is working well, these numbers   
   should be encouraging to the Conservative government heading into an election   
   year.   
   ___________________________________   
   IPSOS:   
   Moreover, half (49%) ‘approve’ (16% strongly/34% somewhat) of ‘the way   
   Stephen   
   Harper is handling his job as Prime Minister’, which is up 4 points from the   
   proportion of Canadians who approved in Ipsos’ year-end poll of 2012. Half   
   (51%) ‘disapprove’ (27% strongly/23% somewhat) with this job performance,   
   down   
   4 points since 2012.   
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   	So . . .  in this approval category, only 16% strongly approve of how Stephen   
   Harper is handling his job as PM.   
   	27% strongly DISAPPROVE of how he is handling his job as PM.   
      
   	And take a look at what year Ipsos used to compare the Harper government's   
   approval ratings . . .  2012.  What happened to 2013, do you suppose?   
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   IPSOS:   
   The government continues to make the economy its priority, and on this file 51%   
   ‘approve’ (14% strongly/38% somewhat) of the government’s overall   
   management of   
   the Canadian economy, and 49% ‘disapprove’ (18% strongly/31% somewhat).   
   Approval is up 2 points since 2012, and disapproval is down 2 points.   
   __________________________________________   
      
   	Once again, 14% 'strongly approve' of Harper's management of our economy.   
   	And 18% 'strongly disapprove'  of his handling of our economy.	   
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   iPSOS:   
   By comparison, approval of Harper’s handling of the economy is ahead of   
   Canadians’ approval rating for how their provincial premier is handling their   
   respective provincial economies in every province but Alberta: Saskatchewan and   
   Manitoba (40%), British Columbia (40%), Ontario (42%), Quebec (43%), Atlantic   
   Canada (50%), Alberta (54%).   
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   	Now, THAT'S the cutest factoid yet in this deceptive little rightwing poll . .   
   . .  IPSOS is actually comparing HARPER'S handling of the country's economy   
   with PROVINCIAL   
   	PREMIERS' handling of individual provincial economies.  Can anyone say 'apples   
   to oranges'?   
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   IPSOS:   
   	Despite an increase of 5 points since last year, only four in ten (42%)   
   ‘agree’ (10% strongly/32% somewhat) that ‘the Harper government has   
   struck the   
   right balance between economic growth and environmental protection and   
   management’, while a majority (58%) ‘disagrees’ (29% strongly/29%   
   somewhat)   
   that the right balance has been found. Furthermore, just four in ten (41%)   
   ‘agree’ (8% strongly/32% somewhat) that ‘the Harper government is doing   
   a good   
   job in protecting Canada’s environment’ (up 4 points), while a majority   
   (59%)   
   ‘disagrees’ (33% strongly/26% somewhat) that it is (down 4 points).   
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   	IPSOS sure had a hard time with that little ENVIRONMENT category, so they   
   preceded the sentence with "Despite an increase of 5 points since last year"   
   (which undoubtedly was   
   	their own poll from last year).   
      
   	But the numbers still pointed in this direction . . .   
   	'Right balance between economic growth and environment protection':   10%   
   'strongly agree';  29% 'strongly disagree'.   
   	'Harper doing a good job in protecting Canada's environment':           8%   
   'strongly agree';  33% 'strongly disagree'   
      
   Wow.  Do we get it now?   
   We're being used as fools for the ones with the tools.  Read the whole poll and   
   see it for yourselves.  And learn to spot the rightwing pollsters and to read   
   between their lies - going into this next federal election.   
      
   		http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=6711   
      
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