Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tories Up Nearly 6% In Quebec In One Week
Well isn't this interesting. A new poll released today shows that the Conservative Party has made remarkable gains in the province of Quebec in just the past week. One week ago the Tories were poised to lose a significant number of their Quebec seats, and this week they are in a position to add new seats towards a possible Tory majority. What happened in between? The Prime Minister announced that the federal government would consider federal stimulus funding being invested in a new arena for Quebec City. This upset the Tory base, but ironically the Liberals have not opposed the initiative. When the federal government was sending money to Vancouver to help fund the construction of Olympic venues, I don't recall the same level of outcry. I don't recall "long time Tories" calling the Adler Show threatening to vote for the Liberals when we were building a stadium for professional curlers. Trust me, that wasn't built entirely with private investment.
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It's a tough call. You're right that the federal government did invest a lot in the Vancouver Olympics, so it would be unfair to tell off Quebec City. On the other hand, we are in deficit-reduction mode so a $100-200 million dollar investment would not be fiscally prudent.
ReplyDeletePM Harper wasn't visible for a long time in Quebec this summer, so he did several stops in the province. Mirabel announcement, visit to West Island D.D.O. city hall and very successful B.B.Q. with a 1,000 people in D.D.O. and another visit in Quebec East, I believe.
ReplyDeleteOf course with the long-gun registry making the news again this won't help in much of Quebec so the poll will go down next week probably.
I do not care if Harper loses support in Quebec based on this arena boondoggle. Maxime Bernier had it pegged. You Mr. Iceman are talking yesterdays solution. Today we are in a severe international money crisis that needs to be addressed with less discretionary spending. We have enough mandatory spending commitments as it is.
ReplyDeleteYou are not a main stream Conservative if you do not agree. we have had our bellyfull of buying votes. The fuck stops here.
I wasn't aware that Quebec City had been awarded the olympics. Quite a difference.
ReplyDeleteThe Olympics in Vancouver were a national extravaganza and not an arena in a city without an NHL team.
ReplyDeleteWe weren't trying to shake a defecit when the Olympics were being built, and Quebec doesn't have an Olympics yet. When they get one we'll biuld a stadium for every man woman and child in province of Quebec and one for me too. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat happened in between? (besides vacationing over)
ReplyDelete-Quebec Conservative MPs acted 'independantly' of PMSH,
the optics were good (especially with a back drop having Iffy and Jack whip their MPs into submission over the LGR).
The jersey photo-op, and Bernier,
they all looked strong.
-polls showed that Quebecers mostly supported decriminalizing the long form census
-the new Quebec Tea Party has got Quebecers thinking.
It's an arena... relax. Canada will be okay...
ReplyDeleteThe government would make the money back through the investment.
The stingy idiots saying otherwise aren't exactly successful business entrepreneurs anyway. Bunch of over passionate ideologues.
Had the government drawn a line in sand against spending any stimulus they would of lost to a opposition coalition.*
They (the ideologues) shouldn't keep assuming that all tax payer money is from THEIR hard earned pockets. If that was the case then it would be in terms of cents. If the people of Quebec city don't want it then fine. This is a democracy, they can decide for themselves.
I don't care for sports or arena's for that matter... but I know enough that they still make money. And Quebec City wants to see about hosting the winter Olympics someday. The spot would be ideal and bring in billions of dollars to both the province and country.
The Olympics in B.C. helped to show off our country and that province to a whole lot of people who previously knew very little about either. That helps our country's renown worldwide cross cultures and languages.
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A Quebec Tea Party? Thats a ray of hope.
Been under a rock so its the first I heard of it.
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*As absurd as that sounds... but at the time, the country was still too far to the left to accept cuts.
But in the type of recession it has been, it was very necessary to stimulate. (Making up for all the things the Liberals didn't spend money on during their time in government.)
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OH, and as the Conservatives are able to lower taxes and cut spending that'll lead to higher revenues while lowering the deficit.
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got a problem with tax spending? get after the other levels of government. Where the lime light hardly shines.
^"Making up for all the things the Liberals didn't spend money on during their time in government."
ReplyDeleteas in things that governments are supposed to spend money on. like infrastructure/repair etc.
Iceman, aren't you a little suspicious given this was an Ekos poll?
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