Things are getting crazy

As we enter the last week of the 2011 campaign things across the country are getting a little crazy. In the Toronto riding of St. Paul, a home owner, Toronto resident Joanne Mills woke up Good Friday morning to find four tires slashed on the family car and made the decision to remove the Liberal sign from the family’s front lawn.

“I attribute this to Stephen Harper’s attack ads that make people think this kind of behaviour is acceptable.”
Police from 53 Division are investigating 16 cases of cars with slashed tires and scratched paint in the area and have asked the public for help in the investigation. They said cars had their tires slashed and paint defaced between 10 and 11 p.m. Thursday night.

The campaign office of Carolyn Bennet received a call saying the if you vote Conservative this would not happen.

Now over in Vancouver, Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh has filed a complaint with Elections Canada after one of the men acquitted in the Air India bombings endorsed his Conservative rival.
Dosanjh said his campaign learned Friday about the April 6 meeting at B.C. Khalsa School in which teachers and parents were urged to support Conservative Wai Young.
Dosanjh, the incumbent in Vancouver South, said Young was at the meeting along with Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the Khalsa School founders.
Malik and another man, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were found not guilty in 2005 in the 1985 Air India bombing in which 331 people were killed in two explosions.

Now over to Quebec, never before seen in Canadian politics, the New Democratic Party has jumped to the top of the heap in Quebec, ahead of even the Bloc Québécois.
A new poll released by CROP, published in La Presse Thursday, shows that the NDP is the choice for 36 per cent of survey respondents, compared to 31 per cent for the Bloc. The Tories and Liberals trail at 17- and 13 per cent support respectively.
If the support holds it could lead to a breakthrough for the left wing party in the province.

Of course in my riding of Simcoe Grey you have the NeoCon, Dr. Kellie Leitch, facing off against the Icon, Helena Guergis. At each of the All-Candidate meetings Leitch made it a point to say she's the only true Conservative candidate, and Guergis made it a point to say that she's an Independant Conservative. With the Conservatives fighting among themselves, this riding could go red next week for the first time since 2004.

While we are on the topic of Simcoe Grey, reports from all of the campaigns are coming in that their signs have been removed or destroyed. Like the title of this posting says, "Things are getting crazy".

Until next time!