EKOS poll: Stunning NDP surge has all three parties in a dead heat

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Yep it could happen,

not all conservatives are hillbilly tea party-ers. There are many Bay Street types who like the Liberal's social agenda but when threatened with change, will stand by their corporate interests before allowing a party (ie NDP), who is not beholden to the institutional elite gain power, they could and have voted for the Liberals when they thought it was the winning ticket. PM Paul Martin was also a 1%er of the highest order (like the Trudeau family), and beholden to the banks; he got the whole austerity ball rolling in Canada. I imagine there is a lot of anxiety right now about the possibility of a government being elected that no-one has tentacles imbedded within.

At the same time there are some Libertarian conservatives who have turned their back on Harper over his latest spying bill, and right now the NDP (and Greens) are looking like the only champions for privacy rights. Trudeau blew that assignment.