Canwest: Nearly a third say PM lying: poll

[tuvor]

OTTAWA - More than four in 10 Canadians believe allegations Conservative party officials offered dying MP Chuck Cadman a $1-million life insurance policy to gain his support in a crucial vote, and nearly one in three don't believe Prime Minister Stephen Harper is telling the truth when he says he did not know of it, an Ipsos Reid poll says.

The poll, conducted exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National, also says only three in 10 Canadians think Mr. Harper would be right to sue Stephane Dion for publishing the allegations on the party's Web site.

Pollster Darrell Bricker says the fact that only one in three Canadians believed he lied is actually good news for the Prime Minister.

Mr. Harper has been pounded daily in the Commons by Liberal and Bloc Quebecois MPs over taped comments to the author of Mr. Cadman's biography in which he said party representatives made Mr. Cadman an offer "to replace financial considerations he might lose due to an election."

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=361312

[Spazito]

1. Well, well, looks like this scandal has legs, long, long legs...

Gotta love the plug for harper by the pollster, reaching much on his part, lol.

[Ravachol]

3. "Only one in three canadians believe he lied..."

That's good news to the pollster? "Oh sir, a third of the nation think you're a crook. But it could be two thirds, so that's good news."

Lala-land, truly.

[Spazito]

4. Yep, and others just can't be sure....yet

I wish they had polled me, lol.

[daleo]

2. Take away the undecided, and close to half say he is lying

Plus, almost everyone thinks the libel suit is stupid (I think it reminds people of Mulroney).