Canada Election Watch: Tories Surge in Polls

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper holds an impromptu news conference on his campaign plane in Hamilton, Ont., on Saturday.

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have opened up an eight-percentage-point advantage over the Liberals, the biggest gap of the campaign going into tonight’s crucial debate, a new poll shows.

The survey, conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV News by the Strategic Counsel, also shows that voters believe the Conservatives hold values that are closest to theirs, a turnaround from the first week of the campaign when Canadians identified more closely with Liberal values.

Will the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Paul Martin be able to buy/scam their way out of this electoral shortfall.

Doubtful.

Too much corruption.

Stay tuned for tonight’s debate………

Captain Ed opines, Tories Ride The Wave To Top

And Martin has one last worry: if Harper gets his majority, the investigations into Adscam, Option Canada, and the income-trust insider trading will truly begin in earnest, as well as any other malfeasances. As one commenter from the Canadian capital put it, shredders in Ottawa have begun working overtime now.

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