PC 37, NDP 30, L 27
H’m.
New poll results obtained exclusively by OntarioNewsWatch.com show provincial voters favour Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives to win power should the Liberal minority government fail in its negotiations to get New Democratic Party support for its budget.
What’s more, the Environics Research Group poll shows the New Democrats have surged to second place, while the Liberals have fallen behind to third.
The poll pegs the Tories at 37 percent, the NDP at 30 percent, and the Liberals at 27 percent, while six per cent of Ontarians would support the Green Party. …
The telephone poll of 500 Ontario adults was conducted April 10-13. Environics says the margin of error for a sample this size is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, 95 times out of 100.
Very interesting.
So… election?
Doubtful given Horvath’s concession on the HST heating-oil rebate today.
Pity. Would’ve been a fun election.
But yeah, NDP probably calculates it would make Hudak premier.
Well if the Globe article today is to be believed, the PCs aren’t ready for an election either, so I don’t know. Either way, the current situation is about as far from gridlock as we can get – compromise is reasonable and the NDP’s new income tax bracket is hardly going to be unpopular.
Oh, I can tell you right now that the PCs aren’t ready for an election.
We’re broke.
Based on the CBC article today: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/04/20/toronto-horwath-ndp.html
If the Liberals play ball on the tax bracket, the government lives. If not, election.
But she’s holding strong on the income tax hike.
Interesting.
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