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Lisa Young - Report Card Results

Week Five (June 20 to June 27) Grades

Political Parties
Pass

Bloc Quebecois

Duceppe weathered the storm from his provincial counterpart much better than Stephen Harper did. By next week, he’ll be the most important man in Canada, an irony that I’m sure he’ll savour.

Conservative Party

I submitted my grades for last week too early to take into account either the Klein intervention or the press release accusing Martin of advocating child pornography. On the latter, a one-full letter grade deduction for the most tasteless move in the campaign (which is saying quite a lot, given the kind of campaign we’ve had). Combined with Ralph Klein’s inexplicable decision to taunt the federal government about health care during the last ten days of an election campaign, Harper was left floundering. He didn’t ever recover his footing, and hiding from the media and the public didn’t paper over that. A terrible end to an otherwise remarkably skillful campaign.

Liberal Party

Thanks largely to Ralph Klein, who obligingly stepped onto the federal stage for a reprise of his role as health care bogeyman, the Liberal campaign gained a bit of momentum in the past week. Martin has hammered his strategic voting message hard in the last days of the campaign, and I suspect that it will be enough to pull a miniscule minority out of the bag for the Liberals.

New Democratic Party

While I have to give him credit for stamina, Jack Layton hasn’t been able to make his presence felt in the campaign as much as he would have liked. The NDP’s showing on Monday will be respectable, but I suspect that Martin will be able to make inroads via strategic voting.

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