Based on the early campaigning I think that the CPC is working really hard at making sure they stick with a minority. Their big tax cut announcement is pretty roundly brushed aside as too far in the future to make a difference. The coalition talk is largely irrelevant.
I'm not saying that the other parties are doing anything amazing either; I don't care about the credit card promise that Layton made today and while the RESP investment the Liberals announce today is nice I hardly see that galvanizing voters either.
I have a hard time seeing major gains for anyone so far...save maybe the Bloc. Although they have an issue as well (if any leader cares to exploit it) in that sovreignty is basically a dead issue for the time being. If I were a federal leader I would drive that point home hard in Quebec and explain that the entire point of existence for the Bloc is sovreignty that they don't even want to campaign for at this point.
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