Via CP:OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government has the support of just four out of 10 Canadians for its decision to extend the military mission in Afghanistan for another two years, a new poll indicates.
The survey, provided to The Canadian Press by Decima Research, also suggests fewer than a third of respondents are onside with a Tory strategy of playing down the Kyoto accord in favour of a "made-in-Canada" approach to climate change.
On both issues, support is especially weak in Quebec, the province targeted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's strategists as the key to their hopes to transform the present minority government into a majority one in the next election.
Harper may be feeling like he's the 'king of the world' right now with all of the power he's been reckelessly weilding over his minions and the citizens of Canada but, if he keeps trying to control every possible issue while not listening to Canadians beyond those in his inner circle, his prospects for an extended stay at 24 Sussex will be severely limited.
Earlier today, on CTV's Question Period, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day repeated the old, tired and just plain wrong line that because Canadian troops are in Afghanistan, the risk of terrorist attacks in Canada is 'diminished'. I have never understood that logic and it certainly flies in the face of what's gone on this weekend with multiple arrests of alleged homegrown terrorists. Now tell me, Mr Day, why didn't the fact that our soldiers are in Afghanistan protect us from these people?
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