Conservative Party and Quebec

Martin Liberals: The poll is simply yet another in a series of which show Conservative fortunes ticking upward nationally, sending the anti-Harper crowd in a dither, according to Huffington Post Canada. However, what is particularly interesting with this poll is the unusual strength the Conservative Party is showing in Quebec. Nonetheless, the most recent EKOS poll, which has a sample size of 2,974 has the Conservatives at 35 percent overall support and with an astonishingly high 26 percent in Quebec compared to the Liberals' 27 and the NDP 25. From typically polling fourth, with between 10 and 15 percent to now being second place in the province, in an essential three-way tie with the two opposition parties is a significant turn-around. Influential Quebec political commentator and former Transport Minister under the Martin Liberals, Jean Lapierre, stated last week on a Montreal radio talk-show that this could translate into around 20 seats for the Conservatives in Quebec. To further cement the view that the Conservatives are on the comeback, the popular and credible poll aggregator threehundredeight.com has for the first time in a very long time placed the Conservatives in first place in terms of popular support in their last update on February 6. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.