Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Wednesday Morning Links

Assorted content for your midweek reading.

- It's generally agreed that the Cons' level of popular support involves a fairly firm floor at about 30%. But for those looking to determine the proportion of people who have given themselves over entirely to the Harper hive mind, we now have our number at 18%:
But when it comes to calling on the government to disclose all estimated costs for crime-related legislation, Canadians are clearly on the side of the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois. Eighty-two% said the government should be compelled to release the figures. Eighteen per cent said they should be kept secret if the government says they should be.
- It should never have been much of a secret that the Harper Cons are looking to take Canada down the same path as their Republican cousins. But Susan Delacourt is starting to trace the similarities for a wider audience.

- And the CCPA's report on the destruction of regulatory systems will offer plenty more fodder for Delacourt's series.

- All of which suggests that the growing realization of just what the Cons have in store for the country may have something to do with the fact that Harper's long-sought majority is getting less and less popular as an option (even as the Cons talk about it more overtly as a goal):
Only about 26 per cent of Canadians say they would be comfortable with the Conservatives winning a majority after the next election, according to a new poll conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV by Nanos Research.

That number is lower than in any other Nanos survey that asked the same question.

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