Globe and Mail blog: Prorogation 'has hit a nerve'

[tuvor]

Prorogation seems to be changing the way Canadians think about the federal Conservative government.

An EKOS poll released Thursday – the first since Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced last week that Parliament would be suspended until March – shows support for the Conservatives falling.

The poll of 1,744 Canadians, which was conducted on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, suggests that just 33.1 per cent of voters would mark their ballots for the Conservatives if the election were held this week.

That’s a drop of 2.8 per cent since December. And it means the Tory lead over the Liberals, which was as high as 15 percentage points in October, is now about 5.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/prorogation-has-hit-a-nerve/article1422003/

[whosinpower]

1. Harper was on CBC with Peter Mansbridge

And tried to make this prorogation sound totally normal. He said something along the line of being Prime Minister for about a year is as good as it gets.

Even my husband is disgusted with this. And we both agreed - if Harper wants to prorogue - then every single conservative MP that does not show up for work - should not recieve any salary for that time period. Why should Canadians pay their salary when they just up and quit for months at a time - and when the nation is at war - and when the nation is suffering a recession.

Oh - but the Olympics are coming--we simply can't work then. $%&^%$FGH%EEFG%%#

This will cost him. Voters are rightly disgusted by this.

[HeresyLives]

2. Well I'm glad SOMEthing finally did.

[Spazito]

3. Good! It certainly should "hit a nerve" with us....

I hope Canadians are waking up to see that Harper is Bush-like and, given Bush was despised by the vast majority of Canadians, will toss him and the rest of his cabal into the trash heap.

[Lucy Goosey]

I'm a federal government employee in Ottawa...

...and the sentiment here is roughly "I don't always like my job, and sometimes it's difficult, and sometimes my clients don't like what I have to say to them and we have these big meetings where we hash things out, and it can get a little heated, etc. BUT I show up every day and compromise and fight fires and solve problems, not to mention I answer my own phone and do my own correspondance and filing, and never once have I ever pouted or gone home because nobody agreed with me, or because I wasn't popular, or because my idea was rejected."

So I have 2 questions: Can I swap jobs (and salaries) with the PM? And, can I have paid leave for the next two months to go to the Olympics?

[Lucy Goosey]

4. oops, double post