I report today on a new Ipsos Reid poll, a poll taken this week as the Conservatives were meeting near Quebec City during which Prime Minister Stephen Harper to “fish or cut bait”. (An aside: Would Dion be choosing to have an election if he fished or if cut bait. And, as my friend Paul Wells sort of pointed out: If the bait was already in the water, wasn't Dion already fishing? But I digress …)
The poll finds that Canadians are hardly moved by all the back-and-forth about the green shift and Harper's attacks: 34 per cent would vote Conservative; 30 per cent would vote Liberal.
In Ontario and Quebec, the Liberals still lead the Conservatives. It's close in Ontario, not so much in Quebec.
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This is what one person commented over at Paul Wells' blog:
«I guess water is implied, but wouldn’t the literal translation [of the French version] be: “Mr. Dion must decide whether to start fishing or withdraw his bait”? If he was sitting 20 feet up on a pier dangling his bait just over the water, would the saying not apply?
I can’t believe I’m even writing this.”»
And I can't believe that some pundits think the “fish and cut bait” expression was the most important part of PM Harper's speech.