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Royce Koop - Week Six Results

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Bloc Quebecois

Duceppe is, as he has been for the entirety of the campaign, coasting to a big win on the backs of John Gomery and Jean Lapierre.

Conservative Party

This was not Harper’s most impressive week, with the CPC leader focusing mostly on crime issues. But the Tories did not have to perform well during the Liberal implosion in order to have a good week.

While the surge in support for the Tories may be entirely due to Liberal misfortunes, it is hard to believe that Harper’s plodding policy announcements prior to the break did not have an impact, at the very least in making a vote for the CPC more palatable to former Liberal supporters. It might therefore be difficult for Martin to win back the support he’s already lost. If the CPC is to win, Harper has to avoid tiring out like he did at the conclusion of the last campaign and the muzzle has to be firmly kept on his more rambunctious MPs. The party’s newfound popularity in Quebec is surprising and may help the party in Ontario.

Liberal Party

Martin might have had a good idea in focusing on policy in the second half of the campaign, but the announcement of two RCMP investigations relating to the party has made it all but impossible for Martin to get any message across. And Martin’s attempt to downplay the seriousness of the Option Canada investigation may not play well with post-Gomery grim Canadians.

So far, the Liberals have been pulling their punches in their TV spots. They may try to “bomb the bridges” with another negative ad campaign, but Martin has allowed Harper to frame Liberal advertising in a negative light. Martin may pull a rabbit out of a hat in Monday’s leaders debate, but I doubt it.

New Democratic Party

Layton has kept up a steady drumbeat of policy, and his post-break campaign started off with a sharp attack upon Paul Martin. The NDP needs to keep the pressure on Martin in order to avoid another strategic voting situation where NDs desert the party in order to avoid electing a Conservative. Layton may also differentiate himself from Martin in the leader’s debate with a good performance.

The party has also announced some new policy, the most notable of which focuses on crime and which is almost entirely a sell-out. When even the NDP is advocating mandatory minimum sentences and the prosecution of young offenders as adults, Canada has a problem.

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