Post Morneau Resignation, Liberals, Tories In The Tough Race On The Heels Of WE Charity Scandal
The fact that the WE Charity scandal dictates corruption by the Liberals is believed by a majority of the Canadians even though many still approve of how the government has been otherwise tackling the corona virus pandemic.
And, although the rate of approval remains high, there still appears to be a close competition between the Liberals and the Conservatives when it comes to the decided voter support.
According to the polling conducted by Ipsos exclusively for Global News, 1000 Canadians were questioned for their voting preference before former finance minister Bill Morneau resigned and another 1000 were questioned after.
As per the results, there has been a slight narrowing of support after Morneau stepped down which according to him was because he would not seek for re-election but the reports followed by stating of a rift between him and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the way things have been managed in the pandemic recovery and also Morneau’s role in the WE Charity scandal.
However, the overall combined results suggested that the Liberals are currently occupying at thirty-five percent among the decided voters with the Conservatives close behind the count at thirty-two percent.
The NDP sit at eighteen percent while the Bloc Quebecois and the Greens are both securing at seven percent.
Among those who polled before the resignation of Morneau, the Liberal and the Conservative support sits at thirty-six and thirty-one percent respectively.
And, among those who polled after the resignation of Morneau, the support for the Liberals and the Conservatives sit at thirty-four and thirty-three percent respectively.
The poll holds a margin error of 2.5 percent, which is nineteen times out of twenty which further means that those results fall within the statistical margin of error.
Vice President of Ipsos, Sean Simpson stated that all of this may be just a knee-jerk reaction.
He further added that maybe it’s too early to comment on whether or not it’s the start or decline or a trend for the Liberal Party. But at least in the short span, it has had an impact he concluded.
Moreover, fifty-six percent of the Canadians believe that the WE Charity scandal shows that the Prime Minister and his government are corrupted and that they all deserve to be defeated in the next federal election.
Out of those, twenty-five percent agreed strongly to the proposition while thirty-one percent said that they agreed to some extent.
In the same context, fifty-two percent of the Canadians said that they still approve of the government and twelve percent were strongly opposing and the rest forty-one percent somewhat.
All of this appears to be stabilizing after an up and down of few months that saw approvals in the seventy percent range as the pandemic and the government relief funds have begun to flow in, which then turned to fifty-five percent in May and forty-four percent in July as the evaluation on the WE Charity scandal heated up at the Parliamentary committees.
This raises the confusion that how to do the narrowing support members round with fifty-six percent of Canadians who now say that they believe in the government was corrupt in the WE Charity scandal and the fifty-two percent are still saying that they approve.
When asked to elaborate, Simpson said that it’s hard to explain.
He said that at some point both the metrics are bound to reconcile and he thinks that the part of the reconciliation is yet to come when the Conservatives decide on who their next leader is. He went on to state that a lot of people are sitting on the fence right now saying that they aren’t sure which way they are going to jump. All of this depends on who the Conservatives have as a leader and also on the point of what the Prime Minister plans to go ahead with in the future.
News has it that Trudeau discontinued Parliament this week until the 23rd of September, which hampered the work of several Parliamentary committees who have been conducting probes into the allegations of conflict of interest in the WE Charity scandal.
According to a statement released by Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, the decision on whether to topple the government stays up to his successor who shall be revealed on Sunday following weeks of mail-in voting.
The two front runners are Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay and current Conservative MP Erin O’Toole, though the party would still require support from both the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP if the next leader proposes to topple the Liberals.
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