New Poll - Manitoba - NDP ahead 46% - 43% for the Tories

The Manitoba Liberal Party has suffered a blow just days from the election after two prominent former Liberal MPs announced their endorsement of an NDP candidate. In a mailout to people in the Winnipeg riding of Seine River, Anita Neville and John Harvard expressed their support for the NDP's incumbent candidate Theresa Oswald, who is the province's minister of health. "We support Theresa because she is a thoughtful, progressive MLA that has worked very hard for the community since she was elected in 2003," the letter states, adding that Oswald has served residents "with great distinction and accomplished many things. "As the Canadian Health Accord is renegotiated in 2012, Manitoba needs a person of Theresa's caliber and experience in the legislature." Harvard, the former MP for Charleswood-Assiniboia, has also expressed in a letter to constituents that he supports NDP incumbent Sharon Blady in the Winnipeg riding of Kirkfield Park. A co-signatory to that letter is Brian Head, president of the Charleswood Assiniboia federal Liberal association. In it, they praise Blady as "a hard-working MLA that has done much for her community" since her election in 2007. Both letters, dated Sept. 27, note that Liberal candidates in other ridings should be supported but that a strategic vote is necessary in Seine River and Kirkfield Park because the race is so close between the NDP and Progressive Conservatives.

Well, the Free Press is at it again. Now they are calling for the election of a minority government. I think that they know it doesn't look good for Hugh and they are trying to get enough Libs elected to wreck the majority. The nonsense excuse is there is a need to deal with that good ol' standard, sing along with me if you know the words, "the deficit". I don't see how electing a minority government at first class is related to deficit reduction.