Posted on 09/16/2008 7:08:55 PM PDT by maccaca
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's opposition Liberals could suffer their worst electoral showing in nearly a quarter century, the Ekos polling company projected on Monday. Based on surveys over the past three days, Ekos said the ruling Conservatives were slipping away from their chance to form a majority government, but could still take twice as many seats as the Liberals. ... Ekos projected the Conservatives would win 147 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons, shy of the 155 needed for a majority but above the 127 they have now. The Liberals would drop to 71 seats from 95. Their previous worst electoral result was in 1984 when they were reduced to 40 seats. The separatist Bloc Quebecois would rise by one seat to 49, the left-leaning New Democrats would pick up 10 seats to win 40, and the Greens would have one, Ekos projected. The Ekos data was based on an automated telephone survey from Friday through Sunday, putting the Conservatives at 35 percent of the vote, the Liberals at 25 percent, the New Democrats at 19 percent, the Greens at 11 percent and the Bloc at 9 percent ...
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Big deal. A week is a long time in politics. 25 years is an eternity. Noöne can predict that far ahead.
Most of them have been pretty close.
Canada had a huge advantage in labor costs when the CDN$ was 70 cents and health care costs were low to non existent. Now, with the currencies virtually at par, manufacturers are just as well off to produce goods in the US. Canada has an advantage in some agricultural products but entrenched interests on both sides of the border make trade difficult to impossible in these areas. Ask Canadian consumers of dairy and poultry products and US consumers of beef.
The big advantage that Canada has is in production of energy. Canada is actually exploiting its energy reserves, and selling them south. If the US starts to drill, this advantage will also lessen.
if Obama wins, I’d expect a lot of jobs to flow across the border.
The silver lining, eh?
Let’s hope so.
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