Watch above: Unpacking the politics with the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt and Sun Media’s David Akin.
As a new season of The West Block begins, Tom Clark sat down with the Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt and Sun Media’s David Akin to unpack the politics of the newest election ads and how the federal campaign is going so far.
“The Conservatives already were having problems with motivation in a long campaign, you know, getting the volunteers out,” Delacourt said, “Now they see news like their campaign manager is having to go back to headquarters. Stephen Harper has to admit he’s not perfect. It doesn’t feel like a winning campaign and I think motivating Conservative voters is going to be one of the big issues for them and the remaining—is it a hundred weeks left in the campaign.”
“I’m gonna just push back a bit on the narrative that the Conservative campaign is as bad as it may have been all cracked up to be,” countered Akin. “The fundraising I’m told on the local level and the national level is coming in at the regular pace, so that’s often a proxy for excitement, but I do think the NDP, who are just starting really to get into the air war in a substantial way for the first time.”
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