Canada's main parties near dead heat in new pollSat Dec 16, 2006 10:29am ET
By Janet Guttsman
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's two main parties are neck and neck in an opinion poll
published on Saturday, leaving the outcome of the next federal election up in the air.
The Ipsos-Reid poll of 1,004 Canadian voters, published in the National Post newspaper,
gave the opposition Liberal Party 36 percent voter support, compared with 34 percent
for the ruling Conservative Party. Taking the poll's 3.1 percent margin of error into
account, that is almost a dead heat.
"I couldn't say who would win," pollster Darrell Bricker told the paper, describing the
race as "very, very competitive."
-snip-The Liberals and the separatist Bloc Quebecois have already hinted they might try to
bring the government down early next year, making a spring election likely.
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