FEDERAL CONSERVATIVES RUNNING SCARED?

According to today's Waterloo Region Record and Geoffrey Steven's article tiled "The truth is, the Tories are worried"; they indeed are. Mr. Stevens suggests that recent petty partisanship by Stephen Harper simply reflects his concerns that Conservative popularity is on the wane across Canada. That this could be so is by all likelihood directly a result of watching the Conservatives in power for the last eight years. Even the faithful eventually get tired of bush league partisan behaviour. Mr. Steven's mentions opposition members being barred from the Conservative mission to the Ukraine and preventing former Liberal Justice Minister Irwin Cottler from attending an Israeli charity event. Issues such as the Senate scandal and the misnamed "Fair Elections Act" are giving the Tories fits. Justin Trudeau attack ads aren't working and the Conservatives are losing in the polls both for preferred party leaders and on economic issues. The final straw may be the poll from the Manning Centre in Ottawa. It seems that fewer and fewer Canadians are identifying themselves as being Conservative. All of this does not bode well for Tory aspirations in next year's federal election.