Tories losing ground in key provinces: poll

Maybe we will see a summer election???

Tories losing ground in key provinces: poll

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives are losing ground to Liberals and New Democrats in provinces that will hold the key to electoral victory.

The Canadian Press-Harris-Decima survey indicates that the Liberals maintain a slim, three-point lead over the Tories nationally.

But the Tories are losing ground in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia, the provinces that will mostly likely determine the outcome of the next election.

Nationally, the Liberals were at 32 per cent, the Tories at 29 per cent, the NDP at 16 per cent, the Greens at 11 per cent and the Bloc at nine per cent.

But they trailed the Bloc and Liberals in Quebec, were behind the Liberals in Ontario and were in a second-place tie with the Liberals in British Columbia, where the NDP has top spot.

The survey of just over 2,000 respondents was conducted April 8-9 and the national portion is considered accurate within 2.2 percentage points, 19 times in 20, although provincial findings have higher margins.